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> a rating service to automatically choose the best mint

Everyone in the #cashu space keeps saying this, but how does that play out UX-wise? It's easy to get excited about "Hooray, it's technically possible to do multinut magic at lightspeed!", it's quite a different thing to define/discover/use those "best mint(s)".

The state of the art is literally asking users to leave their wallet-app to go and rate mints on another random web-app 🤦‍♂️ .
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Tim Bouma 1y ago

Dunno. I am seeing mints as a routing service. I don’t ask the internet to route my packets, it just happens. I see the same thing for routing sats. As for UX, I see the user being not aware, nor caring what mints they use.

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Tim Bouma 1y ago

Users will only care about sending sats between email address formats. Under the hood, it can resolved as lud16 or nip05 and the appropriate transfer is invoke - lightning for lud16 and Cashu for nip05. The user won’t care.

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Niel Liesmons 1y ago

A routing service to where?

Their custodial LN balance?

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Tim Bouma 1y ago

Could be anywhere. Right now I am experimenting where I am sending to an address that immediately swaps to my on chain address.

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Niel Liesmons 1y ago

On chain!?

Why would I not prefer to keep my nuts, as nuts, with a mint that I run with (or is run by) my homies?