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Me, too. I ❤️ nostr It took me an evening to recreate my Twitter historical bot. You can see it here: #[5]
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Optimistic Pessimist ⚡ 2y ago

Nice, happy to see things getting built on Nostr.

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Tim Bouma 2y ago

Thanks! I just got NIP-57 working for #[9] after a good night's sleep and figuring out the final problem to solve!

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Optimistic Pessimist ⚡ 2y ago

That's amazing. I will look into it how I can help also.

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Tim Bouma 2y ago

Still early days. My vision is a simple on-demand payments infrastructure for Lightning Addresses. The guts is Cashu as the engine developed by #[2]

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Optimistic Pessimist ⚡ 2y ago

My understanding of cashu is very limited. I swear I looked into it but did not get it. What does ecash means in this case. Any good explanation would help.

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Tim Bouma 2y ago

I use it for doing the payments clearing. Invisible to the user.

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calle 2y ago

Please help!

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Optimistic Pessimist ⚡ 2y ago

I hope I am not asking for too much. But to be fair I did try to understand cashu.

But can you explain me cashu like I am 10 year old or point to the right explanation.

Because this explanation I did not get:

Cashu is an Ecash implementation based on David Wagner's variant of Chaumian blinding (protocol specs). Token logic based on minicash (description) which implements a Blind Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange scheme written down here. The database mechanics