Well, that certainly sounds like an interesting premise.

I've operated a Lightning node for a couple years now, and I'm not sold on ecash yet. As far as anonymity goes, I always thought that running Lightning over Tor was enough - is this not the case?

I can imagine that, if I want to give friends access to operate through my system, I'll need to have some standard for keeping track of how much each person holds. It seems that this is the use-case that ecash aims to solve, but it certainly seems like a complicated way to go about it. Is there something I'm missing?