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Is cashu to bitcoin like the paper dollars were to gold in the free banking era? Mints are like banks, you can be rugged, they can run fractional reserve, they can shut down run away with the LN bitcoin that you deposited?
Cashu tokens are utility tokens that are redeemable for Bitcoin. They are an IOU or digital cash equivalent secured by a trusted (or federated) mint, which is a key difference from holding the Bitcoin itself in your non-custodial wallet. This introduces an element of custody and trust in the mint operator that is not present in bitcoin nodes.
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ESE 2 months ago
First, they confuse you; then, you get rugged.
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ESE 2 months ago
Sir, I see what you did there.
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u32Luke 2 months ago
Pretty much, similar to a promissory note
Bitcoiners should not be loving a messenger that leaks group memberships, requires a GSM locator,, runs on a centralised / black box server, enforces location permission or sms when changing device, uses a persistent identifier, and cannot be self hosted That said, this fork is cool. And cashu is awesome.
eCash is better than Bitcoin for commerce. Nobody wants their spending history easily analyzed by anyone, forever. Ideally, there would be some type of proof of reserves / security of reserves type of GUI in wallets so users and holders of eCash would have a more intuitive understanding of what eCash is vs. on-chain Bitcoin (i.e. that there's some degree of counterparty trust / risk).
Yes, but the difference is you can choose other methods like ⚡️, or Fedimint, or unchain. It's choices, made by you, not the Hierarchy
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magnum 2 months ago
It’s not clear what it is.