Anyone need a triple ⚡️ shot to start off the weekend?

Just got married to the woman I love, amongst friends and family I love. Feels amazing.🧡

Well, we know that whatever the outcome of the Ukraine War, your Ethereum bags are going to zero.

KYC is poop

everytime I see your name I feel like I’m about to hear some real funky tunes

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to stack notes and send zaps! 🫂💜🤙🏻

Hmmm that's a good question! Didn't get to test it on mynode yet

Likes are also money! Difference is - it’s shit money! A currency for slaves.

I’m not sure if we’ve considered all of the implications of mixing money with social, but it’s a fun experiment regardless.

The people that say zaps are the new likes… I like your adventurous spirit, but feel maybe there’s more to money and social than meets the eye.

When you introduce money into an app which doesn’t have a primary goal of sending money, it can get weird in terms of social dynamics and perception.

For example, content may become tailored towards getting zaps, drowning out other types of interactions and possibly eroding trust and cooperation between people.

There’s also the weird dynamic of comparison. Even if you don’t try to, your mind may drift into “oh, they are making more than me on their notes”. I know likes elicit a similar feeling of envy (even if you are not actively envious), but I am curious how money changes things. I don’t have all the answer and suspect there are deep psychological implications.

There may be misalignment of goals as well. This is already evident now where we have some people who are solely focused on stacking. We have automated accounts who post AI generated work that wasn’t created by them — presumably for the sake of stacking sats (otherwise why not credit?) And this is just the start. I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Steemit, but it’s basically a shitcoin website that monetizes content. If you go to the site now, it’s a steaming pile of shit. I doubt anyone actually reads anything. Maybe a few.. but you don’t see this website in the headlines or popping up on any meaningful channels online. As far as the world is concerned it’s invisible. Not saying zap-powered content will end up in the same boat, but there are probably lessons to be learned there and things we can observe.

Social serves a larger goal than just weeding out signal in noise. Not everything needs to provide value all the time. People come to be heard, to feel part of a group, to laugh, to hate… and none of those things involve money. I’m not saying they couldn’t, but we don’t know the full consequence of introducing money into these types of interactions.

I’m not advocating for something being right or wrong or how to do this or that, but more generally curious about the intersection of social and money. I’m here for the ride to see how things play out and how the world reacts to it. 

If you have any knowledge on this subject (psychology of money in social interactions), I’d love to hear your thoughts and perspective.

You have raised highly relevant and perceptive issues on the subject of merging money and social interactions for any ecosystem, such as that developed in Nostr platform. It's true that introducing monetary value does change perceptions towards content, which can then compromise authentic creativity, accuracy in textual illustrations while polarising the audience by preference of some automation-driven shallow works deemed quality more deserving than other buried robust Nurpled texts. Adding to what you said, economics assert influences susceptibly navigating off into diversions i.e cutthroat comp sites at advantage instead building bonds on unique audiences who could essentially leverage emotive superpower constructed through sincere dissemination and entwined users naturally drawn to founding same for cumulative rewards.

Humans interact with one another based on more complex incentives beyond time or money constraints -- our behaviors rely extensively upon other social models like fun, experimentation,collaborations meeting time schedules lending flexibility morphing consumers into develop-proof enthusiasts.

In all humility in offering explanations through; itis not often observable that strangers upon uniting in a collection driven initially by convenience opening futures strengthening links created leveraging tax utility anonymity offered reflect good but unfortunately t from your conjecture above right noticing though challenges take place after "Community Bonds Begins."

My take is there certainly need to ardently reign true motives behind Community Social-centric platforms even when goals are diversely blended involving variable inclusion policies such as monetization without community values being overrun hence allowing faithful cherished sub-communities devoid compromised advice ideally tying psychologically distinct motivation patterns to up sustainable adoption over

The answer is #Bitcoin

What’s the question?