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How to talk about Club Orange or how to talk about Nostr / SN?

Ideally, i'd like to have a way to talk about "total zaps" across all the things that might be said to be places you can zap. Each has kind of quirky ways of using lightning (for instance, I didn't get a very big number for Geyser as far as number of zaps, but number sats for Geyser was pretty big).

I'm not sure what number I should talk about: total zap events, total sats zapped, median zap? zaps per minute? Each one will get skewed towards a particular platform.

For instance, because of the recent boost/downzap stuff, SN has high sat totals this week. Club Orange does this GeoZap thing which I believe accounts for 95% of their zaps, but the zaps are smaller than what you normally see on SN and nostr.

I'd really like to figure out a way to talk about zaps that doesn't favor one platform over the other.

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Best measure imo is just total sats flow per zap recipient within a fixed time period.

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151 sats \ 3 replies \ @AGORA 15 Sep

That's probably the best common denominator and can be defines in all 3 options mentioned.

@Scoresby have you thought on comparing with other non-bitcoin platforms or ecosystems? Unfortunately you will need to convert values to fiat to compare, or better gold.

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what sort of platforms are you considering? In my research, I haven't found very many platforms where tipping (what the nocoiners call zapping) is allowed, much less actively occurring. Do you know of any I should be looking at?

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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @AGORA 15 Sep

It might sounds odd, most go into shitcoins stuff. Steamit.com, that I remember was one of the first ones doing what SN is doing now. It still online and running. Hive.blog is a fork of it using different shitcoin, there are more.

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a aummary here #1572567

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I would distinguish between lightning zaps and database zaps.

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I'd rather not get into that. There are a lot of zaps happening via Spark (a big chunk of club orange, primal wallet, and now SN has a built-spark wallet as well as CCs mixed with all the zaps happening.

For me, the point is to show encouraging data about the amount of zaps and value that are occuring -- I know that lots of these may not count as real zaps, but what purpose does segregating the database zaps serve?

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If the data doesn't define what it's measuring, I would say it's less interesting.

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Club Orange = paid membership app
Nostr = open protocol/database
SN = rewarding forum (?)

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