The beauty of eCash is that you can choose the level of custodianship quite easily. Use your personal mint, your families mint, your appartment complex mint, your towns mint… depending on the level of trust and convenience. Very similar to Lightning custodians, but better.
ecash > Ecash > eCash
See, the 90s are over!
So a mint and a channel are the same or very similar
No. Look at a mint more like a pocket of sats inside a LN server/channel. They can move around in the pocket infinitely without changing channel inbound/outbound liquidity, and they can get cashed out via the channel when needed. Current Lightning custodians also have multiple users in a server/channel, but sometimes fees are still there even if low, and there are privacy implications.
It seems with nodes and channels one needs specific hardware and software.
With mints, electricity and internet connection is all one needs. Make sense?
A mint still needs standard LN server with channels etc
Which mint is npub.cash based on, which URL?
Is there a possibility in the future to link it in NWC to compatible clients in order to zap directly to Nostr as well as receive them?
You can already receive and send to nostr. The address is just your npub@npub.cash
I’m not sure which mint, probably @Egge ‘s testing ground
yes. currently it is connected to minibits.cash. We are working on enabling to pick from any available mints.
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