Definitely more seamless than moving from Zeus on my old phone to Zeus on my new phone with unclaimed cashu that'd been zapped to a Zeusnuts address... I did finally untangle the mess of it after a few chats with LLMs and generally just trying things 4 different ways until it worked. For awhile there I was just pulling 1000 sats at a time with only 2-3 transactions every few hours before being rate limited somehow. I was already skeptical of Cashu... Though in fairness I think what Zeus is trying to do with it is even more ghetto rigged on top of the underlying tools, with little to no documentation on exactly what is going on across the various places in the app cashu gets interacted with (differently). Weirdest thing was being able to see the zaps on the new phone but the attempts to claim it always having cryptic error messages, only to realize that they really did need to be recovered on the old phone because of something to do with nut 20...

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I don't even know that it always does. The LLM's suggested that the key of was tied to wasn't just the xpriv generated by the seed phrase. Basically the regular ecash wallet works as expected but until funds are swept from the zeusnuts system to there they're pretty locked up. I do think I made it harder on myself not fully grokking the recovery process though as booting up the old phone and letting it sweep funds automatically to the ecash wallet entirely before acting seems like it should have made things back to happy path recovery. Maybe with some counter bumping or mint reloading, but not so much rate limiting. It does make me wary of the Cashu approach though, as that Lightning address stays active if you've lost or destsroyed the phone and the phone sure seemed necessary for that sweep to happen. Allowing for quite a bit of build up into an inaccessible Cashu wallet if it keeps getting zapped. Not sure that's worth the convenience when spark or even just more straightforward use of Cashu is an option. Let's be real though -- I really just need to get an always on LND server. Just need some hardware and a ups.
Basically it ties to a key, and I guess Zeus may have that key somehow tied to the device. What is going on under the hood beyond that is beyond me.