I think it would be really cool if the Lightning.Pub accounting system (for users using shockwallet) was on top of a cashu mint and not only a pure LN node (neutrino). In this case you could have both the nostr real-time sync and connection to the node (instead of having to manage VPNs, Tor, etc...) and privacy for each user wrt the node operator, right? And maybe this could enable a "private cashu mint" where only whitelisted npubs could connect (family, friends, etc...).
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Justin likes cashu like Kamala likes press conferences
Cashu/ECash is a bad design choice for this usecase imo, it makes tradeoffs incompatible with fluid mass-adoptable UX because its just layering the management of a new shitcoin as opposed to direct RPC access
Save for enterprise-scale environments, Pub isn't any less private either as it uses ephemeral keys that are blind children not tied to a given identity. A user could have one or many, rotate them, etc. Also with friends/family nodes nodes the anonymity set is so low that becomes the common limiting factor... whitelisting keys would also negate any privacy benefits
If however you are already running a mint, it could conceivably serve as a backend for Pub... while we built on a single implementation to focus on security (LND) we did so in a way that adapters should be relatively simply to implement
