ecash really should have been tabled until the necessary building blocks are in place to make it non-custodial
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It can never be “non-custodial” in the same way on chain Bitcoin can be
how do you define it? if I can compel a contract on L1 to give me back coins I am entitled from a mint, even when the offchain component of the mint is down or censoring, then I wouldn't consider that non-custodial. unilateral exit makes an offchain scaling solution non-custodial.
I mean. I guess never say never. I just wouldn’t compare current Ecash tech to on chain BTC in this regard
Not everything needs to be self-custodial.
Sometimes you just need privacy. Like paying with ecash to a content provider (e.g. netflix). You mint tokens, spend them on content, but the provider doesn't know what you're watching. No accounts, just payments.