Any guesses why?

Is the integration technically easier? Is theresomee client support? Or is it the desire for overcompliance?

The cope is all yours, friend. I have nothing to cope about for I have quite likely already exceeded Elon's achievements. I wish it were not so. I wish I could be wrong. I wish I could fail, for at least in failure I would find some closure in observing a quantum of pseudo-soundness to the world, but alas, I cannot stop the firehose of data continually proving me right. 🙃

Unlike Elon, my aspiration is not be an actor/celebrity -- he actually has been rather successful in achieving that goal.

It’s downright impressive just how much friction BitPay managed to add to paying with lightning. The whole “bitpay verified” thing (which requires KYC at any amount and appears to be a totally made up requirement that no one else is even aware of) makes it totally impractical to use any EU BitPay merchant, which means I use bitcoin a hell of a lot less than I’d like.

mate i don’t mean to be rude but the way you talk abt elon taking subsidies and being on easy-mode because of fiat printing mode sounds like cope.

every person i’ve ever seen that says musk would’ve never found a way with his ventures in a hard money world, or without handouts, look like armchair experts & jaded failures to me.

They don't think it be like it is

i don’t know either but i think if we want to completely replace likes and maintain similar engagement levels then we need one tap zaps.

zion (bad) has this with an in-app lightning wallet and it feels kinda magical tbh.

really curious abt the solution to do- i wander if there’s a way to connect your default wallet (like zeus) directly into damus (cool), or if you need to do lndconnect or something directly within damus (don’t like)

i don’t think onlyzaps is gonna work until clients integrate lightning. too much friction.

I still can’t believe trannies are a real thing.

Lots of bourbon

Alright time to try and remember how to set up OBS

#coffeechain Byebye Shenzhen and hello Hong Kong

renotes/reposts are pretty useful- im actually annoyed they aren’t shown on all the main feeds by clients

#[0]​ yes or no on quotenotes? Should renotes be dropped?

I've been thinking about how to make money on Nostr. Here are my ideas:

1. Hosting service

2. Digital goods

3. User generosity

(Ads are essentially off the table.)

More on "digital goods": the most obvious way is through paywalled content, eg "Zap to unlock". There's no way for any centralized system to skim fees off the top, so to make money you have to be a top content creator. And what content are people willing to pay the most money for..? OnlyFans. I hate this idea, but it's likely only a matter of time in the Nostr paradigm.

My other idea is profile items, eg essentially NFTs people can display on their profile. It would require client cooperation, or at least users to choose clients which support it. This is a half-baked idea, but I like it more than OnlyFans and I think it could make money, especially if the items help represent a user's personal identity or affiliations.

A few short notes on the other bullets. Hosting service is hard with a low profit margin (unless it's highly specialized) and there isn't currently a strong enough incentive to self-host relays, so we have to create that incentive first by gamifying the relay experience similar to ActivityPub servers (eg a relay is a community).

And finally on user generosity, Nostr users are overall wealthier and way more generous than other communities online, so you have a far better chance utilizing that vs say ActivityPub. Creating spaces users really want (and then empowering them) will help. I think it's possible to be cashflow positive with a team of 2 or 3 people just on donations if you do it right, but to scale further you need to be tapping into the human psyche a bit more unless you become a full-fledged nonprofit.

So in conclusion, let's not build OnlyFans and find a better way instead. Ideas are still baking. Also, this is completely unrelated to the #OnlyZaps hashtag which is about replacing Likes with Zaps. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.