life is about tradeoffs, so there is no 'better option' for all here.
You can use cashu to build your own federated mint, or use the fedi app and ecosystem. Up to you. The ecash and sats within both systems are the same.
If I was onboarding a new user who is not a proficient nerd I would get them to use fedi right now (better UX, support, and a 'safer' model against rug pulls)
just the opinion of this cat
The ecash and the sats within both systems are NOT the same.
In cashu, the ecash tokens are just that, tokens. New cryptologic proofs which have no relation to Bitcoin or sats. Lightning MAY be used, but is not required, to bridge to other nodes and participate in existing networks. A token from mint A labeled as "sats" is not directly compatible with the same token from mint B. Both mints are doing a swap when sending value from one to the other. When you send sats to a mint, you're effectively selling your sats for an arbitrary token. When you want to use your tokens in a mint to pay a lightning invoice, your hoping the mint fulfills that request at a reasonable exchange rate.
you are right Vic
I should have said the 'sats can be the same', but even then it is better to explain as you did that they are two separate systems/mint with lightning channels connecting them.
So not the same sats, that said right now if I send an cashuA ecash note from the fedi client, it can claim it in a cashu wallet. That said the two mints do a lightning swap (which you pay for as the user) as they are two separate mints.
thanks for the correction
