Onchain zaps are not new, and the idea of using npubs for bitcoin addresses has existed for a while.
There is a reason no one did it.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/143
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1851
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/258
and probably many more that discussed on Nostr and never made it to a NIP
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-05-21 20:57:57 UTC
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2026-05-21 20:57:57 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Onchain zaps are not new, and the idea of using npubs for bitcoin addresses has existed for a while.\n\nThere is a reason no one did it.\n\nhttps://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/143\nhttps://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1851\nhttps://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/258\n\nand probably many more that discussed on Nostr and never made it to a NIP",
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}