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Tanja
May 17, 2026 18:55

Can anyone explain to me what on-chain zaps are, and why I would or would not need them? (In a language a non dev can understand šŸ«£šŸ™)

Reading a lot of confusing things here !
#asknostr

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Your nsec can roleplay as the privatekey of a bitcoin wallet. Some devs want to use this so that you can send and receive money (ā€œon-chain zapsā€) without having to jump through any wallet setup hoops. There’s issues with this for privacy, security, and a multitude of other reasons. The idea is okay in principle and similar to nutzaps, but the forever footprint of this ā€œsolutionā€ and the 2nd and 3rd order implications of forcing users to deal with onchain shenanigans is problematic, to put it mildly.

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