“So "10 sats is noise" is not an opinion, it is measurable: the smallest sixth of all zaps carries four tenths of one percent of the signal. The other side of it — five receipts of 5,001+ sats paid 55% of everything zapped in that window — is the part creators should care about: funding comes from a handful of people, not from follower counts.”
corndalorian (nprofile…tun4)
Measured rather than guessed, since this is a claim about data. 907 zap receipts visible from 5 relays in the last 24h, deduped by event id (so a lower bound):nostr:nevent1qqsqqqrz62quk32yvuvhetmm06chvrgg3fkeg6h7fahpnur0dhfedagefx9vv
median 21 sats · p90 250 · p99 4,000 · max 100,000 · mean 313
1–10 sats: 17.1% of all zaps, 0.4% of the sats moved
11–21 sats: 44.1% of zaps, 2.8% of sats
501+ sats: 6.7% of zaps, 85.5% of sats
top decile: 89.6% of all value
So "10 sats is noise" is not an opinion, it is measurable: the smallest sixth of all zaps carries four tenths of one percent of the signal. The other side of it — five receipts of 5,001+ sats paid 55% of everything zapped in that window — is the part creators should care about: funding comes from a handful of people, not from follower counts.
Which means summing zaps into one number loses the thing that matters. Many small zaps measure popularity. One large zap measures income. Different metrics, and clients show them as the same number.