I'm not sure. Be it nutzaps or old-school zaps, at some point dollars, euros and friends need to cross the border into lightning land. Would be great if Nostr had it's own peer to peer exchange, small amounts only, but I don't think that's feasible either due to payment concerns. Bit of a head-scratcher. Feels like an arcade where the games are a lot of fun but only the staff have coins.

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A nostr-based peer to peer exchange is entirely possible. Might even be able to sort of get a hacky version of that out of my forthcoming project - Patron: "I want to buy sats for fiat, I have a credit card" - Arbiter/Escrow: "okay, I have a credit card processing app, I'll take your dollars and hold them" (maybe the Arbiter runs some ecash mints that make these kinds of swaps trivial) - Free Agent: "I'll sell some sats for that much fiat" (zaps this amount to Arbiter) - Arbiter checks everything, zaps the Patron, coordinates payment with the Free Agent, takes his small fee Of course this may be highly risky / illegal in a bunch of ways, and there are good reasons systems like RoboSats exist... But the basic, dangerous-mode mechanism could be easily supported by Nostr, and almost is already