Oddbean new post about login | logout Anybody explored anonymous zaps? One thing which has come up in user research is there are a set of users who want to receive zaps but don't want the world to know that they're receiving them. Thoughts?
Already exists
Damus has such an option https://image.nostr.build/0a0ccec8939e5ca3f352cb7217a9ec6fb7870e97f8095b48b794a4c10b489aa2.jpg
Yah, and this is something that breaks a lot of the nostr analytics. There isn’t a way currently to “hide” zaps received. There is a way to “hide” zaps sent, as other commenters noted, Damus allows “anonymous” zapping. That means nostr analytics can account for zaps received from those users but not account for zaps sent.
Back in the day a few when a few of us degenerates had zap battles we would sometimes send anon zaps to each other to confuse one another - simply for laughs. Personally I get the fact that someone may not want others to know who they zap and how much so they would anon, but as a receiver of these I preferred to know who zapped me.
To be able to anonymously send is cool, I wasn’t aware. The question that came up was the desire by people to receive anonymously.
It's the responsibility of the zapper to publish the zap receipt, so it's ultimately up to the recipient if the zap is published publicly or not. The main issue would be that senders have an expectation that zaps are public. Perhaps zapper endpoints could have a flag that specifies if they publish zaps publicly or not to align expectations.
