Proof of work. Having a blast with the zaps⚡️
Sorry for the delay, had to walk uphill in the snow to get to the wifi
“I remember back before nostr had zaps! We had to copy and paste invoice URLs around! Most people hadn’t even used lightning before!”
Pork shoulder on low && slow for all you nostr meat freaks 🥩 #meatchain #pvpork
⚡️ Someone zap me for a quick demo? ⚡️
💯 lightning is great for day to day transactions, but it’s not where I want to store my net worth. For that I’ll stick to the base chain for the foreseeable future.
But I fully agree lightning brings bitcoin to the masses and developing nations, I just don’t think bitcoin is doomed without it- atleast as a store of value.
Bitcoin moves value across time extremely well and does not require lightning to do it.
Today HRF announced 2 billion sats in gifts from its Bitcoin Development Fund to projects worldwide
We are delighted that we could gift $50k of this to #[0] for his awesome work on nostr and Damus ⚡️
Other recipients include the Africa Bitcoin Conference, the Qala Fellowship, core developer Vasil Dimov, Lorban (for their important work on Stratum V2), and Bitcoin Myanmar, a new group that will be producing Bitcoin educational content for people trapped inside Burma’s military dictatorship
More info at the link. Next round of gifts to come in May!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/hrf-donates-2-billion-satoshis-bitcoin-projects
Love how the hyperlink to #[0] in the article goes to a deleted twitter account.
#[1]
Links are pasted into clients, so youd have to implement that across every client.
Nostr.build could probably rename those fields to conform to the spec.
cc: #[3]
Definitely and interesting thought experiment.
On the nostr side I think each zap-like would produce 2 notes (kind 9734,9735 per NIP-57). Today likes (reactions) are a single note (kind 7, NIP-25). So if I’m interpreting the NIPs correctly we’d see double the notes if we moved to zap-likes as specified today.
On the lightning side I’d be surprised if there was much issue. We should be able to scale an invoice service backed by a database of small transactions to well over 5k ops/day.
What do you think?
A single provider is overwhelmed because everyone piled on after being 1) encouraged to use it because 2) their UX is super easy to use and supports LNURL out of the box.