Dikaios1517 on Nostr: Nostr was not created with zaps as the purpose of its existence, It was created for ...
Nostr was not created with zaps as the purpose of its existence, It was created for free-speech and censorship resistance. Zaps developed organically when users started pasting invoices for other users to pay and it was eventually added into the protocol itself as an event kind.
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