Nothing that goes on in anyone's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you.
— Then where is harm to be found?
In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine. Let the part of you that makes that judgement keep quiet even if the body it's attached to is stabbed or burnt, or drinking with pus, or consumed by cancer. Or to put it another way: It needs to realize that what happens to everyone – bad or good alike – is neither good nor bad. That what happens in every life – lived naturally or not – is neither natural nor unnatural.
— Marcus Aurelius chief OG Stoic
I think a lot about how to use the same ecash balance across different applications and I can see three ways so far:
- Use same client-side wallet accessed by different resources (think Alby, browser extensions)
- Sync entire ecash stack via encrypted cloud storage (wallet downloads ecash on startup, needs to upload new ecash after each tx)
- Sync wallet state via the same mechanism as ecash backup restoral currently works (wallet grinds through derivation path on startup sync)
It's important to realize that ecash solutions will not only be "general use wallets" that can pay for anything, send money to friends, or buy a coffee.
Ecash systems will also be closed systems for media subscriptions, content monetization, VPN credits, paywalls, and ads.
Not as money, but as credit tokens. The web is huge.