Introducing Nostr Wallet Connect- Native Zapping in Amethyst \ stacker news ~nostr

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Introducing Nostr Wallet Connect- Native Zapping in Amethyst blog.getalby.com/native-zapping-in-amethyst/

10.9k sats \ 10 comments \ @Alby 3 Apr 2023 nostr

405 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 3 Apr 2023

very cool, this feels like a big step towards seamless zaps on mobile apps

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crybaby 4 Apr 2023

hopefully people start prioritizing the creation of a social media UI/UX that doesn't suck, if people just wanted lightning payments, they already exists. This all seems to be feeding into high time preference, dopamine mining pride parade thats antithetical to the basis of bitcoin in my very low iq opinion

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @phaedrus 4 Apr 2023

amazing! Btw, It takes a couple of seconds for the zap to finish. Did anyone analyze what's the slow part? (The centralized implementation on stacker.news feels better because its instant)

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @gandlaf21 4 Apr 2023

Of course it is slower, because it is actually using the lightning network, while on stacker.news only the internal db gets updated.

Stacker.news: click bolt -> update Database -> finished Nostr: Click zap -> fetch invoice via LNURL -> pay invoice from wallet -> wait for nip-57 note for confirmation ... there might be even more steps involved.

Point is, you can NEVER beat the UX of a centralized solution. This is a known trade-off. Centralized solutions work great, until they don't work at all (you get censored, blocked etc.)

That being said, i think the payment UX on nostr has still room for improvement and it probably will improve a bit over time, but it won't reach the UX you would experience in a centrally managed Payment solution IMO

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @03df1cd585 4 Apr 2023

Not necessarily, if it is from Alby -> Alby then it is essentially also just a db update. But the latency comes from several steps, that can take long even if no "real" LN payment happens:

Fetch LN invoice over HTTP
Dispatch invoice over websocket
invoice gets paid
Zap Nostr event gets published to relays
Zap Nostr event is received by your phone

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gandlaf21 4 Apr 2023

thanks for the corrections

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Apr 2023

Wen Damus?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 3 Apr 2023

I set this up and this is super cool! It works!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 3 Apr 2023

Can you imagine if lightning actually takes off

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03c013966b 5 Apr 2023 freebie

Très intéressant. C'est une bonne avancée mobile.