Zapathons are dead and just aren't as fun or meaningful as they used to be 🥹 We need some new Nostriches to participate to make them fun again or maybe we do them less often or more impromptu. Thoughts?


Not to mention the impact on wallet of satoshi is now drastically diminished


Right. That's when they were fun. When we were actually trying to take down custodial wallets. I mean stress-test them 😂


Once a month, or every other month, to reminisce the good old days


Less often, maybe a monthly event with a purpose or theme?


Hear me out:

#zapathon but with nuts 🌰


yooooo I just arrived to the #noster party. Please tell me the zapathons are dead. How about the a zap olympics aka Zaplympics. ⚡ ⚡


Maybe less often and use them as a time period to educate new users on self-custodial options.


I’m new to noster educate the shit out of me 🦉


nostr:npub1dgpt04w4c88wc0g262xaw8zvlm4mvwtmjhl0tn2sxtyjywsn6q4qt8ka3a & I still have the theme announcement profile if this idea gains some traction again. Zapathon has seemed mostly abandoned, so it's just been hanging out.


I like zapathons 🥲


Like how about someone suggests a topic and everyone has to quickly knock up a Meme and we zap the ones we like most

Zap checkpoint
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It feels a little bit corny to phrase it this way, but it really depends on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go. The best option for self custody in my opinion is to run your own node, but if you're not ready for that step yet there are definitely some intermediary options that you can take.


I think for sure around the Bitcoin Holiday calendar makes sense. Hodlween/White Paper Day, Genesis Block Day, etc.


When dumb memes become cruel jokes (but in reality WoS lives on, the US is just stupid) https://image.nostr.build/2f180b6c05ffaeb953a8fe55615c453b2313afbf774c0f5b5acbb0c2c8ace600.jpg


I still zap ⚡ frequently but usually target original content or news and nostriches that make an effort to engage in my silly content.

Zapathons were a lot of fun but it seems like every third post uses that hashtag and the content is usually weak.

It would be interesting if it was themed and we were actually zapping something purposeful.. like plugging a jukebox of #nostr “talent”..  or zap-raising for a development goal/cause. I have no idea if/how that would work or not.. I’m not that smart.


Custody, privacy, sovereignty… things work in levels

Having sole custody of private keys in a seed phrase is the most accessible

Verifying the timechain and your own transactions and speaking Bitcoin to the network (running a node) is the next level


So for instance, Zeus and Mutiny seem to be some of the top contenders for a more self-custodial style lighting wallet Both Zeus and Mutiny have some costs associated with setting up the wallet And that seems to be a turn off to some users, but that's kind of the price of dealing with lightning imo. Some people have moved to a wallet called Blixed, but I haven't used that myself, so I can't really vouch for it. Although I can say I have had issues sending to that wallet.

I'm currently getting ready for work, so I don't really have time to answer anything super in-depth, but my DMs are always open if anyone has questions about stuff.


Not as fun, I agree. Themed zapathons? Text-only zapathons? Fresh-material-only zapathons?


Please forgive the Shrek reference, but it has layers like an onion. 😅


✊ https://media.tenor.com/Ub4wS-loUZMAAAAd/onions-have-layers.gif


How about a Zapathon lottery game? Is it possible to make bot that randomly rewards one of the replies with all the Zaps that it received after one hour? We can call it #Zapsweep or #Zaprize 😂


Seeing the exact same memes and gifs got boring. I like the idea of themes and/or an emphasis on fresh content.


Yep. It's pretty much the same four accounts reposting the same shit that they posted last week and the week before and the week before... And everybody else got tired of zapping them.

It stopped being fun a while ago.

Some people need to post less, and more people need to post more.

And it would be a good time for new users to post anything and get some zaps.

Can we revive #zapathon? Maybe, but not if it's just more of the same old shit.

It needs to be an event where people work on original fire memes all week long and save them up for this weekly bash.

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This would probably be more fun. The last day of the month everyone goes wild and that leaves plenty of time for random impromptu ones too.


When you can't even zap the zapathon inceptor as a tribute you know something is amiss.

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Historically, they were just incredible fun ways to stress test Wallet of Satoshi and Alby. We brought them down several times because we Zapped too hard. It was fun to try to break them while we spammed zaps to as many people or as many times as we could in a short timeframe. Lots of memes flowed, sats flowed, and we all had fun.


I sent him 21 freedom units.


That’s basically

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Good idea. Easy to remember. Ends the month on a positive note


november in the books


If it's any consolation it's been several failed ones to WoS so maybe my Alby and that just aren't getting along right now. As is often the case 😅


I think the wos fracka is also not helping in the zapathon. I think we need a reason, trying to break things was fun.


How about a cashuthon? ;-)


I just sent a lightning transaction to ur npub nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424@cashu.me


The price is high, every one get aware he need more sats. Everyone hold and buy more before its too expensive. Fomo starts to kick in.


I dunno man, I easily zap 3-5 times a day when I see content I value or someone doing something that I feel deserves rewarding.  I don't really want to zap just for the sake of zapping.  Is organic zapping not enough?


Same here. Organic zapping ftw


Yes, the high frequency is exhausting. At the very most it should be once a month, or better yet even less often.

Two times a week is just too much and it breaks the feeling of exclusivity of the event. Also it's not enough time to generate new good content.


Once a week?


good old days =(


Will just had a million zap post so…


It's NEVER been about the amount. It's about the quantity. Less than 3000 have been sent today. We used to clear 10-15000 on non-Zapathon days 👀