not bitcoin infra

the rugchain!

I spent some time seeing if I could start a Cashu mint on some spare hardware in my home lab, but found the documentation lacking. Not necessarily the technical how to, but more the larger context. Why do this exactly, what aim would it serve? What to do after the mint is running? What defines success exactly? Getting a mint up and running is the easy part. The real questions I had were not met with answers.

I thought Cashu wasn't Bitcoin. Now it's Bitcoin infrastructure?

It's a lightning proxy

Is WBTC or TBTC on Ethereum Bitcoin? How are we defining Bitcoin now?

Snail mail me some tictacs and I’ll send you some ecash from my tictac mint

a lightning node is a bitcoin infrastructure

Scamming infrastructure

Chaumin a-way my friend

What can we improve?

Yo let's go. Now that's a new age of finance.

Fr fr no cap

a cashu mint just flew over my house!

Outline: What establishes Cashu as the next evolutionarily step in a users bitcoin journey. What makes Cashu more than just an interesting tech stack that uses Bitcoin. What does it solve for that Lightning does not. How does it make layer 2 technologies like Lightning stronger. What types of users / personas should consider operating a mint. Is this journey a philosophical one (further the Bitcoin mission), a technological discovery arc (discover what’s possible for Bitcoin), a business plan (how to become profitable running a mint)? I have to go back to work now, but happy to collaborate further if you find this useful.