Oddbean

Agreed. Not only that, but anything Bitcoin-related it clearly repulses a huge chunk of potential users. That's the reality of it, and it may be a deal breaker for many of the Nostr leader devs, in the sense that they may have to make a decision to simply give up and ignore the anti-bitcoin segment of the market.

The way I see it, using #zaps should be a natural endpoint of #nostr participation, but it shouldn't be the reason its touted as superior. As in, you end up using zaps to reward creators, because its fun, and because its ANOTHER WAY of interacting, but the reason people don't use this is not because #Bitcoin is not front-page enough. Take #Amethyst, my client of choice. As I write this reply, 4/7 options I could add to it (image, polls, etc) are Lightning-related.

In the short term? By posting good content that gets them zaps. If we see wide(r) #Bitcoin adoption people might bring their zaps with them. Otherwise, Zaps will remain a fixture of the Bitcoin community here in #Nostr that might bleed through to the wider community. Nostr and Bitcoin are related but the question is, should #zaps act as an improvement to #nostr, or is #nostr supposed to be just a marketing campaign for Bitcoin?

So 90% of the users who are lurkers will never benefit from it... I think the whole "value for value" economy concept **as a way for free-access content creators to make a living (and I include devs here)** is completely flawed because it fails to recognize the most basic principles of human action incentives related to what is basically free content. Trying to onboard free-access content creators based on zaps is delusional. It will never work because it's economically irrational. Subscription/paywall content, yes, I think it's perfect. And that's the only actual Nostr-Bitcoin symbiosis I can see.