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c03rad0r 1 week ago
What, people still use YouTube even though cashu tube exists?
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Next step in the Cashu Spilman channel system is to redesign the backend to make it easier to plug in any storage system that you like, e.g. sqlite, nostr, in-memory. I want to wrap up the functionality into easy-to-use high level functions, such as 'validate_payment', in order to make it very easy for service providers to start accepting payments via these Cashu channels. Some of those functions will need efficient ways to reach out to state management systems, but I don't want to hardcode one particular system into this library. The core code will stay in Rust for now, as that can be easily exposed (e.g. via WASM) to other languages. And I'll probably write these "bridges" for TypeScript [for continued use within the Cashutube blossom-server] and Python. So here's an LLM description of what I'll likely work on this evening, although I expect I'll want to convince the LLM to change some of the details of this plan before executing: == LLM description: == image View quoted note →
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c03rad0r 1 week ago
It uses spillman channels in the backend to pay for the infrastructure rather than using your attention to pay for the infrastructure that you used
I'm curious what you don't like about cashu? I guess it's the fact that we need to trust the mint, making it custodial But I won't presume, and I'll let you speak for yourself 🙏
Cuz every one acts like ecash/cashu is some bitcoin only tech and it’s not… it could be run with tictacs… or on any other blockchain… plus it’s custodial & it’s built for rugpulls… Why aren’t we using ecash 2.0 since it’s newer tech n e ways?
> Why aren't we using ecash 2.0 [...] ? Cashu is open source. If you want to suggest a protocol improvement, make a PR
I'm curious how you would scale bitcoin to 8 billion people, each making multiple payments per day Channel factories (e.g. Ark) could be used to build "Lightning channel factories", allowing multiple users to share one UTXO in a fully trustless way. This is the only serious idea I'm aware of to scale non-custodial bitcoin to the entire planet If you're working on some tech like that, I'd love to learn more In the meantime, until we see if we can find and implement such a solution, the world is going to need custodial solutions. And therefore, development will continue of the best form of custodial payments to enable billions of people to make their small daily purchases in the most private way
We can just scale on chain as it’s always been intended, but no one wants to do because my node is gonna become to expensive to run cuz I don’t wanna buy a bigger hard drive crowd. Want privacy use a privacy coin not a layer on top of a non privacy coin.