There's another answer as well as the good points made so far:
If I click upvote, it puts 1 sat by default. For those of us who've spent time on similar sites (like reddit but also twitter and youtube are similar) it feels natural to just click 'upvote'.
The long-press to change it is not familiar to new or casual users.
If you want you can change the smallest amount once in the settings, no need to long press.
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Yep, I checked that after writing my comment .. I hadn't looked at the settings for 6+ months :) It's perfectly fine but 90% of people won't bother changing defaults. Could possibly change UI to make that choice more prominent(?)
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Yea, maybe a prompt after registering just so the user knows its a thing.
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Or even more than that, because if you click through it when you sign up, you never look at it again (unless you read a thread like this :) ).
If I had to suggest something, it'd be - two buttons next to each post, or something that looks a bit like reddit's 'gold' and other awards, but it's an actual button right there. I suspect other stuff (including long press) is just not going to get people using it.
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Didn’t know that was possible cheers! 😂😂
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