So, a creator on Twitter wrote that she wished there was an easier way for creators to get paid or tipped on Twitter. I told her about Nostr and the Lightning Network / Satoshi, where tipping is as easy as zapping sats. Another user, a self-confessed technologist, jumped in on the thread and remarked, "but crypto fees are so high".

This is a completely wrong notion and a lot of people have it when it comes to Bitcoin and Nostr apps. There are no "crypto fees" involved in Bitcoin and Nostr apps. Transactions - where you pay or get paid - in Bitcoin and Nostr apps are processed off-chain on the Lightning Network - a separate payment layer built atop the Bitcoin blockchain.

I was surprised by this complete lack of awareness or knowledge of the Lightning Network and the Satoshi (one hundred millionth of a Bitcoin). This is both a huge challenge and a huge opportunity to scale Bitcoin apps like Stacker, Wavlake, Pinstr, and Habla. People continue to think that Bitcoin is something "those people do there". They still confuse Bitcoin apps with Blockchain and Web3 apps. They don't realize or know that Bitcoin apps and the Lightning Network have been created to solve precisely those set of problems around scaling Bitcoin. This lack of general awareness around the Lightning Network is a huge challenge.

So, I think there has to be a lot of outreach to convince people that Bitcoin and Nostr apps are really simple and straightforward to use for creators and involve an element of simple payments, where no third-party apps or gateways except lightning wallets are needed. This thing needs great packaging and marketing of the phenomenal value proposition of Bitcoin and Nostr apps.