This is custodial, right? How do you find a mint you trust?
Discussion
It is custodial, yes! and somewhat experimental at the moment, so tread lightly.
I use https://mint.minibits.cash/Bitcoin and https://stablenut.umint.cash but there are a lot. cashu.me has a mint browser. hang out long enough in nostr ecash alleys and you might get invited to private mints.
deploy your own mint
I’m running an Alby Hub node, which I like. Maybe I could get into ecash. Why not just use LNURLw?
well fundamentally LN and ecash mints are very different, so yes you could use LNURLw but your node needs to be online, have liquidity, and have a synced node.
With ecash you can do payments offline, without the channel liquidity dilemma, no onchain utxo. You risk doublespend of the ecash whilst online, there is a certain about of trust you have to have in the sender when you accept an offline payment.
I would recommend looking into the documentation on cashu.space and watching calles talks and podcasts about it