- Please read the tweet I replied to so that you understand the context of 'upgrades' - Mints are third parties who custody bitcoin for users that may or may not use LN nodes. I have experimented enough and running a mint: https://thismoneydoesnotexist.lol - It is possible with LN

LNURLw works if you're offline, but your internet gateway is online to redeem the payment. You can also use e-cash non custodially if you run your own mint Custody clearly comes with risks, though I want to have e-cash if I must use a custodian, because standardizing the interaction with custodians allows me to leave the custodian frictionlessly and it happens to come with privacy. Yesterday I witnessed atomic real time channel rebalancing involving mints. Users of lightning can benefit from the liquidity without using custodians themselves.

- it's not a tweet - cool - no it's not