Neat, I like the simplicity of that approach. So the "wallet" here is an ecash wallet, which can send and receive tokens to a cooperative Lightning node in exchange for a lightning transfer of equal value? 

 You don’t even need a Lightning node. The mint takes care of all of that. Works with multiple mints. 

 Right,  but in my case I *want* a Lightning node. How does that work, I suppose I would need to run a mint myself? 

 Sure, if you want to run your own mint. That’s what I do, as well have my own relay. The point is that it is completely flexible. 

 Neat! There's a lot here, I'd have to read up on everything else it does but this seems to be a good option for the use case I'm looking for. Thanks for fielding the questions.