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Hopium is great and all, but realistically, i think nostr can't be used for more than posting notes by no coiners. Nostr "clicks" if the person is somewhat familiar with cryptocurrency already...that's how all of us got here too...

Then, once here on nostr your guided towards bitcoin naturally due to zaps.

I'm finding no coiner people I purple pill are not wanting to go through nosrs learning curve as they find it way to much information to process, while folks that have dabbled in any sort of cryptocurrency, understand getting through these types of digital learning curves.

I think we are working a bit backwards thinking that the purple pill helps the orangepill go down.

It's not;

Fix social media

Fix the world

Its;

Fix the money

Fix the world

Thus, I think we should be focusing on teaching people globally that make under $50k/yr about bitcoin as these are the people who need bitcoin the most. Not to mention it's also the largest group of people globally. This is how bitcoin wins and becomes the money we want it to be and know it could be, not by getting a bunch of people here on nostr expressing their opinions overloaded with all this new information while having 5 other socials and a real life to maintain as they can't afford food even working 5days/week...

Financial security affords people the time and peace of mind.

Stress and information overload turn people away.

Not by serious people

Ultimately the user should be in control of their zap defaults, but personally I hate the current zap culture that considers 21-sat zaps to be a reasonable tip for a creator. It’s insulting. Unfortunately number bias works against us with zaps that are denominated in sats. Sending someone 1000 of anything feels like a lot because 1000 is a large number. And people that are actively engaged on nostr know that the average amount zapped is 21 sats per zap, so comparatively a 1000 sat zap is much larger than average. But then when you consider that 1000 sats is only 60¢ USD it doesn’t feel like much when you’re an artist and you know people would normally drop $1, $5, etc, into a tip jar at an event. I may be in the minority, but I wish there was an option for zaps to be denominated in local currency, and the client would automatically calculate the correct number of sats to send depending on the exchange rate at the time.

The type of content is a factor too when thinking about what is an appropriate default amount. For instance I may zap a musician a few dollars worth of sats for a new song they release, whereas for a photographer who shares a few photos a day, I probably won’t zap that much at a time.

This is helpful! Do you think the default zap amounts are too low? I did the math last night and 1000 sats is the equivalent of $0.60 USD. Granted this is a lot in some parts of the world but it seems like 6 tenths of a cent in USD the current default is too low