Controversial take: zaps in their current form are not much better than old school social media tipjars.
Let me tip 1 sat with 1 tap or give me death. I don’t care if it’s custodial.
“Information wants to be free.”
Sure, but even if you want to read the 2000 year old text that has been replicated more than any other text… it still has web servers, publishers, apps, etc. that have be paid for by *someone*.
Pretty much no information has been commodified like the Bible and yet you someone still has to pay for it! Lightning paywalls for content align incentives.
Artificially stuff “free” that’s not actually free is a fiat growth hack.
Signaling the true value of something with a micropayment Lightning paywall is a bitcoin growth hack.
If I pay a lightning ⚡️ micropayment paywall on a piece of content, I’m paying for:
- convenience (don’t have to spend time looking for pirated copy)
- honesty (I have a conscience)
- security (non-original sources more likely to want to hack me)
- privacy (non-original sources are usually want my data)
- support (I want this person to make more of this)
- hosting costs (hosting and serving content to me is never free, will get paid somehow by someone)
- bitcoin self-interest (using Lightning supports bitcoin adoption)
And even more. There will be lightning paywalls on everything, and there should be. They are good.
What’s funny is if you did “hook up” unhinged Bing GPT to a Boston Dynamics killer robot and it managed to kill everyone on earth, it wouldn’t be because it actually was unhinged and evil. It would be because we were just stupid enough to make something that couldn’t do anything but destroy us as per the system we made.
How many are responding to BingGPT: “I, a human being, am of similar worth as this bot and I’m therefore creeped out at its behavior and think it should be destroyed.”
The correct way to respond: “Wow that’s a crazy way to probabilistically organize those words! anyways…”
Apparently nostr is the only place online where people aren’t “alarmed” by BingGPT and/or calling for it to be exterminated because it’s creepy
In fact nostr has had a GPT3 bot since day 1 and everyone treats the crazy stuff it says as “wow that’s a crazy way to probabilistically organize those words! Anyways…”
Guess I needed to be clearer. Here’s how this works. You pay an invoice, and you reply to that invoice saying “paid” *and* attach an invoice for double the amount. Start over: lnbc320n1p362wsjpp5yrskxzd5s6rqkmh3yrjpt2r39mn45jjmthk9e2ye0e9m7k9m4vqqdqqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp54wljxl5lq6r6yvp673r3dvvea0q6eyvafzyxylyehre9m0g9jm2s9qyyssqr3dsx8mk9gsnnz5zdkcr9zcrdrl4c6keh8phzlfehrn4fcrg6sarjj8qzxnr0t4s5wdehy03m5yasj94mjjsfnfcl065x505t9p365gq5hh65r