Chaumian mints are so privacy-preserving that censorship is practically impossible.

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Is there a descriprion or a simple diagram how offline ecash works? I can't get the concept and the trade-offs yet.

I'll make one, good idea!

But we are trading off increased privacy for centralization on the mint, which becomes a SPOF and a target for entities with censorship ambitions?

They can't censor individual TXs, but they can try to blow up the mint entirely.

So... we need to make a joint mint with Nancy Pelosi to make sure the US government will not destroy it.

There's not going to be "THE" mint. There are going to be thousands.

You will have complete freedom over choosing which of the competing mints you want to use or run your own one for your use case.