# Apple’s threat to delist Damus impacts the V4V community

<https://blog.getalby.com/apples-threat-to-delist-damus-impacts-the-greater-value-for-value-community/>

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## What Jamie wrote

[Damus](https://damus.io) is the iOS app I've been using to explore Nostr. One of the brilliant capabilities that Damus and Nostr provide is the ability to send Zaps, small amounts of Bitcoin, to anyone else that is setup. I use [Wallet of Satoshi](https://www.walletofsatoshi.com) as my Lightning wallet and have sent hundreds of Zaps to people on Nostr. It is like a small "tip" to say "I really dig what you said there", or to welcome or recognize people in other ways.

It seems that Damus has run into the App Store rules and Apple is insisting that the 30% App Store royalty should apply to Zaps. This is a completely wrong read to me. Zaps should be seen like Venmo or PayPal, a direct transfer, person-to-person of value. You aren't buying anything. The author of Damus said that Apple considered sending a Zap like purchasing a digital asset, like buying an NFT. But that is completely wrong, you don't buy anything.

Hopefully this works out the way it should, but Apple is for sure on the wrong side of this one.

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