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I spend a lot of time in the asknostr hashtag helping folks out. Absolutely one of the most common pain points is figuring out how to both send and receive zaps. Usually, they will have their lightning address in their profile so they can receive, but they haven't yet connected their wallet to be able to send. Or else they are Primal users who set up the integrated wallet on mobile and are wondering where it is on the web, or why they can't use the same balance on another Nostr client, or they forgot to add the lightning address to their profile... The friction of getting set up for both receiving AND sending zaps from the same wallet can be exceptionally frustrating for folks. Meanwhile, NIP-60 eCash wallets can completely alleviate this. Log into a new client? Don't have to set anything up. Your eCash is already loaded and ready for zapping, locked to your npub so it can travel with you from client to client. And even easier for brand new users. The client can add a lightning address for a default mint to their kind 0 profile at the time they onboard and they can immediately send and receive zaps.

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Hello! I just installed Nostr client on my handphone because I read that it was a decentralised version of twitter with less fascism. So far, it looks good. But after reading your post, here are some things I don't understand: * Zaps * Lightning address * Npub * NIP-60 ewallet All of this is techno gobbledygook to me. Do I really need to decipher all this stuff to chat on a social network using my handphone? Perspective
First and foremost thank you for taking the time to help people on askNostr hashtag (TBH I have no idea what this is thought I am guessing its a hashtag id of some sort) users like you are critical for the continuing adoption of Nostr Full disclosure I am not on here often because it is still a little to raw and requires more work then I am willing to commit to have a good UX on nostr From a noob perspective this is the problem NIP-60 eCash locked to your pub The client can add default mint kind 0 profile Just one of these will stop a noob dead in there tracks link many together and noobs are already not reading I am not the dumbest one in the room nor am I the smartest but from my perspective it just isn't worth my time to try and understand each one of these things so I can Zap and receive a few sats anytime I move away from my current client (Primal) Agree that integration of this when onboarding is the answer Most don't know how the apps they use on smartphones work nor do they have to Maybe that is to their detriment but IMHO the lack of language that does not require hours of study to understand is also part of the problem
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I 100% understand and agree with what you are saying here. My post was replying to a couple folks who do k ow what all of those terms are referring to. Ideally, when a new user joins Nostr, they get a bit of hand-holding by the app they are using to set up their profile to introduce them to the basic concepts of having their identity here tied to a public key (npub) and private key (nsec) pair. Some apps are better than others at doing this. From there, most things should just work. The user's introduction to zaps should be by getting a notification that they received one and being prompted to go to the wallet tab to see their new balance, with a brief explanation that they can now zap others from this balance. They should have no need to manually set anything up at all.