This is very insightful. Especially the part about how the internet has no native currency but needed a way to monetize itself, so it monetized time and attention.

Love it!

I fucking love this guy

Giga brain

Gigi says at 14:58 that zaps are something that you can’t fake, but the spec mentions that there are no proofs of payments:

The zap receipt is not a proof of payment, all it proves is that some nostr user fetched an invoice. The existence of the zap receipt implies the invoice as paid, but it could be a lie given a rogue implementation.

So what’s true? Does Gigi not know how zaps work on nostr or am I missing something? Does he mean nobody can fake his zaps?

fuck this. I would love to see someone smart enough to craft a lightning app that hooks the lizard brain: car-crashing staring, big tits ogling, sound bite guzzling human impulses that would push lapps into the mainstream.

Zaps are very powerful because they allow us to bypass attention-stealing content that doesn’t deserve any of our money. This way, we filter what truly deserves the value of our attention. I’ve started giving zaps only to things I really liked and just a like to those I found merely interesting.