Zap stream backends calls them "sats", I renamed them to "dot"
I always thought the "sats" in the zap stream website were real sats, until I ran my own backend and realized they aren't real sats. They are just credits. So I decided to call them "dot" instead because I find calling them sats is a bit misleading and it makes users think they are real sats.
I wasn't sure what to rename them to, stream credits, stream points etc. Eventually I just went with dot.
1 dot = 1 sat
So I have 105 sats/dot on your backend.
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