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It takes time for new Comer to set up wallet . As they are pretty much use to old system .very complicated stuff with the documentation needed just to set up wallet . ☺️

He does have an npub wink-wink

Zaps are not a crucial part of nostr Is this why you've never helped me? Because I won't join your lightning grifter cult?

If a zap falls onto an npub but no one is around to redeem it, does it make a sound?

I am not convinced that that is true, today. It could be in future. It's worth experimenting, at least.

What crucial role do they play? (Honest question.) For content creators, I think it's probably better to convert readers into subscribers (e.g. BOLT12 recurring invoices), in the patreon model. For content consumers, the patronage model is also probably better at intelligently funding the kind of stuff that's good for you rather than a dopaminergic ad hoc process of zapping. For algorithms, my understanding is that zaps are just an unverifiable statement between two people, e.g. you and I could sign a zap saying that one of us paid the other 1M BTC without even a single sat changing hands. If they were verifiable, they'd seem to give algorithmic advantage to rich people and that doesn't particularly interest me.

I tried to lay it out here: nostr:nevent1qqsqm2lz4ru6wlydzpulgs8m60ylp4vufwsg55whlqgua6a93vp2y4gpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59upzqmjxss3dld622uu8q25gywum9qtg4w4cv4064jmg20xsac2aam5nqvzqqqqqqy5qzzx0

they keep saying that but zaps aren't really meaningful and are totally unnecessary for nostr