Why is it easier to zap a shitpost than a note you actually ...

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  "content": "Why is it easier to zap a shitpost than a note you actually thought about? There’s a gap that shows up in the data I think we should talk about…\n\nThere's research on public gestures that should bother us. People who make a visible token show of support for a cause, wearing the pin, joining the group, signing the petition, end up less likely to do anything real for it afterward. Do it privately and the real support goes up. The public gesture settles the account. You looked like someone who cared, and the impulse that would've cost you something is gone.\n\nHand somebody a dollar in quarters and they spend it. Hand them the same dollar as a bill and they hold it. People take the large denomination on purpose when they're trying to stop themselves. Nobody wants to break the bill.\n\nA sat balance is one bill. No coins in your pocket, just a number, and a number reads as an amount instead of change. So the default on a full wallet is leave it whole, and we tell ourselves that's discipline.\n\nMoney is never generic in practice. People sort it constantly, same currency filed into rent money and money you'd never touch, and identical dollars behave differently depending on the pile. I’ve read some documentation on it and it holds up everywhere anyone's looked.\n\nWe filed all of it into one pile. Every sat, savings. Correct call for fifteen years and it's the conviction that got us here. But the filing system can't tell cold storage apart from four thousand sats sitting in a hot wallet for exactly this purpose.\n\nnostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m ‘s  line about bitcoin going irrelevant if nobody spends it gets read as a merchant problem. It's smaller and worse than that. Money that never moves stops being money inside the head of the person holding it. You stop thinking in it. It becomes a number you check.\n\nZapathons worked and the event had nothing to do with it. For one day everybody moved sats into a different pile and called it play. Nothing was being decided. Sats went out over dog photos, over jokes that didn't land, over a riff somebody recorded in their truck.\n\nThe fix is a filing change. Move a chunk of sats into a pile marked play, small enough that losing it all costs you nothing, big enough to last the month. Then spend it like it isn't yours, because you already decided it isn't.\n\nWe're the only network on earth where paying somebody for a good note is a normal thing to do. That only stays true while we're doing it.",
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