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schmijos | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Do they receive zaps? Imagine a rich troll bot.
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Laeserin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They do. I was having a disagreement with someone and a trollbot jumped in on his side of the argument, and he zapped it for agreeing with him.

They make money feeding fights, basically.
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schmijos | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Did someone do the following experiment yet?

1. Rent an EC2 instance with a Bitcoin backed credit card.
2. Install a nostr bot which can receive zaps and pay its AWS bill.
3. Throw away the AWS login credentials.

Would be interesting if the bot would serve any means to earn its zaps to keep running.