I love Nostr, for as much criticism it gets here on stacker news, I still think it's a very valuable protocol for offering an ecosystem of digital ownership.
I remember jb55 first inducing zaps in the damus client but now I'm wondering if he got the term from stacker news.
Who's got the receipts?
No we didn’t come up with the term. We debated using it among others, but at the time (2021) there was a popular lightning wallet called Zap and making up terms seemed like a bad idea so we just stuck with tips. Jb55 deserves full credit for the term (unless he got it from someone else).
When did the lightning bolt feature show up? (For each zap, pew-pew-peeeew!)
day 1
so really Jack Mallers should hold the crown. Legend
ya Mallers is the 🐐
Zap was an awesome app back in the day
ew simping for a custodian
yeah, man. I got mad respect. I attend the Chicago Bitdevs every month at Strike office. Surprisingly, custodians are not only useful but I would say crucial to the success of bitcoin.
he's the reason a lot of us got into lightning k00b
I was assuming sarcasm on the comment about disgust with custodians.
Give me a tip—it doesn't sound bad, but I like "zaps" better.hahahahaha
"No comment, just the tip"
I didn't know this history. Great question @revhodl21
Zaps was how we thought of bitcoin payments back in 2017.
#227586
totally forgot yall had lightning payments on invoices in 2021, I think Super did that first implementation if I remember correctly
Yes he did. LND Tor node and invoice macaroon connection.
wow what a legend!
A Zap is sending money over ICANN, right?
(you'd've thought they'd've done Bolt12 by now smh)
lol you all can’t even get your bolt11 spec not retarded but yeah let’s all rush to support bolt12.
I think it started on nostr.
Zap came from Nostr. SN just adopted it.
Most likely, SN is older and adopted this publishing incentive—which really encourages content creators to keep posting. Nostr is great; I really love it, and in my opinion, it’s quite addictive and highly interactive.
I think it originated on NOSTR!
Zaps pre-date nostr
(Gun-based prototype from 2020)
https://m.stacker.news/160322
The Zap Desktop wallet had URI's for connecting to it remotely, "Zap URLs"
Eventually with LNURL it all became one concept