Damn. You'd think Zapathon is happening now with all of the memes flooding my feed. Nostriches are excited 💜🤙🏻🫂

#HOWDONOSTR

What are Zapathons?

Zapathons are unofficial events that happen on nostr which consist of rapidly Zapping as much sats or as many people as possible. The main focus of the event is to have fun all the while stress testing many Lightning wallets and clients across the nostr protocol.

Zapathons organically came about as a way to stress test various Lightning wallets that many users were using. During the early days of Nostr and Zaps, Zapathons broke Wallet of Satoshi and Alby several times each during these events. These stress tests allowed these vendors to make their service offerings more robust and able to handle the increased traffic that Nostr was bringing to the Lightning network.

While Zapathons can occur at any time throughout the day and throughout the week - they can be completely random - most Zapathons happen used to happen weekly on Thursday and Friday at 5pm Eastern Standard Time.

You'll find hundreds of people Zapping every single note they come across or they'll be targeting specific notes or even targeting specific individuals. (Zap the devs!) You'll see memes and animated GIFs flooding your main feed as everyone celebrates, produces content to be Zapped, and wants to partake in the fun and excitement.

Some Nostriches like to hold their best memes, GIFs, or even announcements for Zapathons. Posting your content during a Zapathon could mean a healthy boost of eyeballs and Zaps for your note.

All you need to do to participate is have a Bitcoin Lighting wallet and like to have fun. That's it. You can also follow the #Zapathon hashtag for an extra dose of excitement if your own personal feed is a little bland during a Zapathon time period.

It's going to be a couple months. Zaps have slowed down a lot.

GM☕ #coffeechain

Is the market not mentally prepared to shoot past the ATH before the halving?

Ok, this is just thinking-out-loud, but could the self-reinforcing psychology around the cycles be holding the price back, at least until after the halving?

Obviously the market consists of countless participents with their own incentives, intent and psychology. But in the aggregate, is there a shared belief or collective conciousness in the market, that does not want to violate the prophecy of the 4-year cycle?

I believe at some point, the cycles will have to break. But could the expectation that they will still play out in a similar way, be enough to tip the scales so that we don't blast off until after the halving?

Of course, if the ETF inflows are of a certain size, this won't matter enough to hold the price back. But is there at this current juncture a reluctance to pay 70k+ for Bitcoin because it is not *supposed* to be this expensive at this point?

Whereas after the halving, if you pay 70k+ , that could seem more reasonable based on what everyone has "learned" from past performance?

Morning ramblings 😅

Cool! Happy to see there are audio rooms! Are there any other cool add-ons or side projects I should know about… live streaming, video etc?