Zaps are supposed to be for the social fun. Its purpose is to be seen, to be public. "Private zaps" make little sense because they are just regular transactions, on-chain or not. Nobody can have any social fun with them.
The goal of the "Zap" (on-chain or not) is to publicly show your fiancial support to the creator to everybody else. Now, if the fun is not there anymore or you are scared about it, you should not even try to participate in the zap economy. There are other signals you can send to have fun online, including regular transactions (the old tip jar, payment targets, etc).
For the on-chain zaps future, we need to keep reminding ourselves that feature only works if we are using it correctly: to have **social fun**. It's not a regular wallet. It's a source of fun, pride and real signals that just so happens to use on-chain money. There are multiple ways to code it, with Silent Payments and all, but the purpose is to have fun with others. It is to be public.
So, I fully support this initiative. And Amethyst will support removing anything Zap in such a way that you can just do regular private transactions if you want. You cannot control what others do, but your side will be configurable.
quotingThinking about allowing ZEUS Pay users to optionally disable zap receipts.
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This means you can accept money for your posts on Nostr, but the service doesn't publish the events so they don't show up for everyone to see in their clients.
What do you think? Is this a cool option for privacy conscious users, or does this ruin all the fun and spoil the Nostr UX?