The vision of decentralized social media on Nostr relies on frictionless value transfer through zaps, but the Bitcoin Lightning Network is structurally unsuited for this task. True peer to peer Lightning use is heavily burdened by technical friction because users must manage inbound liquidity just to receive a tip, stay constantly online to process transactions, and deal with frequent routing failures. Furthermore, when base layer congestion spikes, the prohibitive on chain fees required to open or close channels make self custody financially impossible for everyday users who simply want to send microtransactions.
To bypass these overwhelming user experience hurdles, the Lightning ecosystem has heavily centralized around custodial wallets and exchanges. While these third party services hide the complex channel management from the user, they fundamentally break the permissionless ethos of Nostr. Because these centralized entities act as money transmitters, they are legally required to enforce strict Know Your Customer regulations. Forcing users to upload government identification and undergo biometric scans just to send small tips completely destroys the promise of a private and censorship resistant digital economy.
Bitcoin Cash presents the natural solution for Nostr zaps by eliminating these secondary layer complexities entirely. By relying on a massively scalable base layer, Bitcoin Cash keeps transaction fees to fractions of a cent, allowing users to send and receive microtransactions directly on chain without ever opening a payment channel. This restores the true peer to peer experience where anyone can receive funds offline, no inbound liquidity is required, and users can maintain complete self custody without submitting to invasive identity verification.
quotingSo are any Bitcoiners going to discuss the whole influx of BCHNostr users? They make up half my trending feed every day now!
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In case you weren't aware, these Bitcoin Cash fans have made their own Nostr client that strips out Lightning and puts BCH payments in its' place. And somehow, miraculously, they've gotten tons of users on here where I have to look at their posts every day. Half of the Philippines among them.
Many of the posts I see are filipinos introducing themselves as new to the BCH community and some even ask what BCH is in the first place... So I can only assume that the BCHNostr devs have a hell of a marketing team that gets normies in here without even knowing what BCH is.
Wouldn't be the first time BCHers have pulled that shit.
But the incredulous part is that BCH users are THE group of people that have been loudly declaring that Lightning doesn't work since the beginning. HOW FUCKING DARE they come in here and strip out a perfectly working lightning system to replace it with their own token?
That's just plain malicious... And it totally admits that lightning works at the same time. Malicious two-facedness.
So what's the play for bitcoiners who love Nostr? Do we simply mute them all (Our fingers would get tired) or do we have any more technical options to make users with BCHNostr in their address/profile disappear from our feeds? fiatjaf (nprofile…4pgr) calle (nprofile…wh3a) ODELL (nprofile…cd8v) HODL (nprofile…hs8c) walker (nprofile…yza6) jb55 (nprofile…2ln2)