Admit it, you've masturzapped.

"Just testing it!"

uh huh, sure you were.

Men will literally spend years of their lives carefully engineering the ability to store pictures of their monkey on 100,000 computers internationally instead of going to therapy

Lightning is a separate layer. While different implementations handle this differently, they all follow the same hierarchy. Bitcoin is the base layer. Lightning runs independently, but needs to connect to Bitcoin to open and close channels. Lightning does this via smart contracts. You do not need to run them on the same server instance. They can be ran on different devices.

There are multiple ways to accomplish this. You can build your own from scratch by installing Bitcoin Core and then choosing a Lightning implementation such as LND, CLN, Eclair, etc. You can also go for a pre-packaged method where no command line skills are needed via Umbrel, Start9, etc.

So, to answer your questions, are they two separate things? Yes. Are they on two separate servers? Commonly, no, but they can be, and in larger implementations should be for redundancy and disaster recovery.

What the hell are Zaps? Or what's the difference between Lightning tips and Zaps?

Simply put, Zaps are Nostr aware Lightning tips. They are integrated with Nostr in a way that allows the sats sent to be tallied and displayed on an individual user's note. Everyone can then see the value of that individual note. That is the key point.

If your Lightning wallet does not support Zaps, you can still send Lightning tips, they will just not be counted and displayed on Nostr. You can still send and receive sats! This is the whole point of Value for Value.

The only Lightning wallets that support Nostr integration (NIP-57) are the following:

strike.army

vida.page

stacker.news

bitcoin jungle

ln.tips (LightningTipBot)

Many others are working on adding support for this. This includes Wallet of Satoshi, BTCPay server, Bitcoin Beach, and probably many more.

let’s just say the “glow-up” was strong in my case 🥹

studded belts and low-rise jeans #tbt 🤪

I don’t know how someone can be hardcore Bitcoin and NOT hardcore Nostr. It almost makes me question their core values and whether they’re in this space for sincere reasons (beyond NGU reasons). But I know we are very early with Nostr and maybe it’s just me. Anyone else feeling the same way lately?