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 Set up minibits.cash address in Amethyst

Minibits should bridge ln zaps to cashu ecash 

Anyone else fucking with minibits? 
 
 How do you do that? I dont see any mention of it on the minibits website 
 In theory 
if you add the minibits dot cash address to your public nostr profile, you’ll start to receive zaps transforned to ecash by minibits bridge.

And you can still redeem ecash from dms one click if your wallet is on the same device as amethyst

Try and zap this note, i will cashu back 
 I must have screwed it up in my client. I dont have a minibits . cash address anywhere 
 Create a minibits wallet
Go to contacts
Select a random generated minibits address
Add your npub
Add nostr relays
Copy (your name) @ minibits dot cash address into ln address of Amethyst  
 Ok i think its set up 
 I get a lightning error when trying to zap the minibits lnaddress and it doesent go through 
 Did you try to zap the note or profile? 
 Yes. Now i tried zapping myself with the minibits address from alby and it looks like it went through but i have no idea where it went.  
 Oh wait i see it now, its in the minibits default mint 
 Did you zap a note?  
 Yes i did 
 So it works?? 
 I was able to send it to myself. I also zapped you 33 sats. Do you see it in your wallet? You have to add the minibits mint. "Add mint" and "add minibits mint". No idea if your sats will just show up in there or if you had to have it added first. 
 Yes I will send 33 back as a test.

I was able to zap my own note for ecash as well instantly.  
 I recieved it. Thanks! 
 I just tried sending you some sats directly through the private tab in minibits 
 I see a 20 sat 
I also see a 20 sat error 
  @calle 👁️⚡👁️ WE ZAPPING ECASH

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 Yes. Did the same. Fun fact : minibits creates a nostr profile, there is a npub that it's your minibits wallet.  
 Minibits gives a number of address options. Just the auto generated addresses seem to have zaps from on to ecash. 
 You can edit your minibits cash address to one of your liking and still send/receive ecash at least as long if it's from minibits domain.  
 Yes, but I want this zap to ecash function.  
 Can you explain?  
 The auto generated minibits addresses allow for a ln to ecash bridge. You can zap notes with ecash and get zaps on notes that convert to ecash. 
The other address types just give ecash functions not zap functions. 
 Isn't it the same? I can zap your note from my minibits wallet, and you would receive ecash. If you zap me I receive ecash. If I add your contact to my wallet I can send direct ecash to you from the wallet.  
 Maybe your custom address works, mine currently only works with the generated ones. 
 I only changed the username. I sent you 21 sats, zero fee, because it's the same LN node from minibits. Still don't know why it doesn't appear as a zap in the note though. Either way, the wallet is very nice.  
 Shows as an error in my wallet.  
 Yeah strange it looks good on my side but really doesn't even appears on Nostr.  
 I think the zap is private. The SATs however show an error in my minibits. I will try and recover them later.  
 Working through errors with Dev. It is all very early. 
 Just cleared. Thanks! 
 Minibits address is super cool. Removed my own address for now as I had a decent amount of sats get stuck when paying to it. Will come back to it in a few months 
 Seems like just he auto generated addresses have this zap function. Ln to ecash bridge. 
 Could I replace alby with a minibits for lightning address? 
 Alby and minibits are different, important to note that this setup results in lightning to ecash. The ecash is custodial, but easy & private. 
 I figure as long as my address is custodial, I should at least use the one that doesn't know how much I am sending and receiving.  Was just curious how well minibits works as an alternative to Alby 
 The cashu protocol and wallets building on it are still very young. Wouldn't put more in there than you're willing to lose 
 Yes of course!  Since I use Alby right now I figured minibits would be a better alternative due to better privacy.  Probably wouldn't have more than 50k sats on the wallet before sending it to my own node 
 Sent you a few nuts sir 
 Thanks man!  What ecash wallet do you prefer/recommend? 
 Enuts is the best looking and most polished. Minibits has some extra cool features but UI/UX is less refined 
 I’m messing with @eNuts ⚡️🌰 so far! 
 ENUTS IS GREAT, I DITCHED APPLE FOR A FREEDOM TECH DEVICE SO NOW I CAN DO MORE WITH CASHU CLIENTS 
 Just set up minibits, haven't zapped or been zapped much since I stopped using WoS. I appreciate the simplicity and thought that has gone into minibits. 

I've played with the cashu lnbits extension last year and the nutstash wallet too. minibits is a nice evolution from those early projects. I'm stoked for the future of freedom tech.
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 Here is a fun thread where I and STPI first zapped eachother with ecash on nostr using minibits LN bridge

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