Oh no I agree. I was really tongue-in-cheeking there. Trust me if someone sent me 69 sats and said “This will buy you an even better car in X years, hope it helps” I would commit obscene actions. Especially being a content creator, the cost/revenue of my videos is grossly out of balance. 

 Hmm my zap should’ve said for that car, not oven 😅🤦‍♂️ Yea its a huge problem for Nostr when it comes to content and monetization. Everyone has their heads up their asses on it talking about future value and generational wealth. 

 I like this Corndalorian 😂 

 Lol 🤣 On a long enough time frame, I do believe Bitcoin will far exceed all expectations. But for the writer, video creator, singer, etc, who needs to keep the lights on and put gas in the tank, none of that matters. 

 That’s old Corndalorian. More new Corndalorian. 🤣 I agree though. It’s a slow transition. Hands must be in both pots for now. 

 Zaps will absolutely not support a full time content creator.

But it can help hobbyists. 

Most platforms require to reach a certain level to even begin earning. Then an even larger audience to start making a living. 

With Zaps even if you have one fan you will be zapped. 

And since they are not relying on it to live. It’s will just be an extra source of revenue. albeit small. 

Those are the people who I think will jump in first. 

 Yet...
But...

More Nostr users = more bitcoiners. Because the two are inextricably linked. 

#growNostr and I believe that will be the path to hyperbitcoinization.  

 It won’t happen overnight. I do believe it can trend that way, and passionate people are building good tools on Nostr. But it puts the massive difference in scale into perspective when I think about this post from Mr Beast. 

 Well yes, we're talking about 10k daily active users vs 120M daily active users. And still a stark difference in UX. But I'm optimistic about Nostr because of the pace of development in that UX. The more frictionless it becomes, the more enticing. Primal having a built in wallet is the way. Amethyst and Damus will be apps for power users, but clients like primal will onboard the normies. 

More content creators will attract more users and more users will attract more content creators. 

Flare is a great start for video content, but I've already been saying that I need to be able to pay for more storage and bigger upload sizes. It needs both free and paid tiers for creators.

As the Nostr UX improves, it will reach a point where it's so easy to use that user adoption will finally start to snowball. We're not there yet, but at this pace, we're not that far away either.

I don't have the dev chops to contribute that way, so I will continue donating to OpenSats and zapping the devs directly.  

 I’m optimistic and believe Nostr and bitcoin are superior, but I do think a good dose of reality is healthy. Nobody is coming here to create content if all they can expect are a few measly pennies worth of tips for their time. 

 Us 10k daily active users are the beta testers to help the devs get this shit off the ground. Somebody has to try it first.  

 The alpha alpha testers maybe is more realistic 😂🤣 But yea it’s a fair point that we’re early. 

 I did the math many months ago. 

A small 21 sat zap per view is more than what YouTube pays per view. 

You just need the scale as you said. 

 Generally People think 

FIAT = Money 
& 
Money = Slavery 

in this case 💯