Hi Sven, thanks for the engagement. Going by your post stating that you have an "average income," seeing on your profile that you are a father, and additionally seeing how you describe your own podcast as "shitty," I take it that your podcast is not how you pay your bills or provide for your family, and that you have another source of income.
This may come as a total surprise to you Sven, but some people out here do not contribute to the bitcoin space as a hobby, but as a full time job – which includes taking a massive amount of risk, which you, again going by your own statements, do not appear to have been willing to take. No shame in that, but maybe a good time to check your privilege and see whether that really puts you in a position to judge those who have.
I, and I am sure many other creators you are referencing in your post here, actually live off of bitcoin; Zaps are not some fun way to boost engagement for us, but another way to pay our bills. Contrary to you, we support the bitcoin ecosystem and services/projects we find valuable every time we spend our money, not by sending someone 2 cents on a tipping protocol.
You're free to disagree with that, but I hope it helps you understand where many of the creators you are referencing here are likely coming from.
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Took the liberty to paste your npub into nostrband as well here, Sven.
Going by these stats, you spent 86k sats in the ~one year of your nostr journey. Seeing how you equate zapping to supporting the ecosystem, I'll assume that this is the primary way for you to spend your bitcoin for things that you find valuable (please correct me if I'm wrong).
To clear up any misconceptions, and not to brag but to maybe put things into perspective for you from the position of someone who lives off bitcoin, I've spent more than five times that amount of sats today alone supporting projects/services/people that are valuable to me, simply because bitcoin is what I use as a day-to-day currency.
So Sven, please do get back to me when you can have a serious conversation about supporting other bitcoiners, and until then maybe try not to judge other people by how active they are in your favorite way of giving back, because that doesnt mean they dont.
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Lola,
After you received so many negative comments here, I wanted to be polite in my response, yet still point out the inconsistency of your questioning the willingness of others to donate while not donating on Nostr yourself. (At least, not visibly on Nostr.)
Since neither of us knows how much BTC the other has spent outside of Nostr, I just pointed out Nostr. I can't verify your claim that you paid 400k sats today, and I don't actually care if it's true. (Maybe you have a spending problem and not a donation problem?)
My whole point was about the projects and its value on Nostr. Just the things we can see. Proof of work, not proof of word.
But now that you're bringing up the typical American "check your privilege" nonsense bullshit, you've lost me.
No one is forcing you to work on a donation system. No one forces you to work for Bitcoin — whatever that means. Bitcoin doesn't care if you exist. It doesn't care about me either.
If you think it's a hobby of mine, that's fine. Then I'll say it's a hobby of yours as well since, as far as I know, you're not a core developer or a coder.
But if you think receiving regular payments is a privilege, then go work at McDonald's!
Go and claim your own privilege!
You lost the argument when you said “check your privilege”
