I don’t really have any use for Cashu. Bitcoin already gives me what I value most, self-custody and trustless settlement.

Some say Cashu is about "trade-offs" and that trusting multiple mints somehow spreads the risk. But that logic misses the point entirely. Bitcoin's breakthrough was that you don’t need to trust anyone. Once you reintroduce trusted intermediaries (even in a "distributed" way) you’ve already stepped off the Bitcoin path.

That’s not decentralisation; that’s just federated trust. It’s the same thinking that gave us Ethereum and its layers of custodial complexity. Systems where you manage risk by trusting more people, not fewer.

Bitcoin isn’t about balancing trust. It’s about removing it.

That’s why many Bitcoiners have no use for Cashu.