A few stupid questions:
1) Is keychat fully open source?
2) How can it receive sats via LN but there is nothing about managing channels and liquidity? What LN server is it using under the hood?
3) What are the privacy implications? Does the Keychat team somehow see its users' cashflows?
4) what happens if the iOS App Store cracks down on this app and bans it? will all my data and balance be lost?
1) Yes
2) Currently, after the Keychat wallet receives a Lightning payment, it is stored as Cashu ecash sats. Users can choose which ecash mint to use.
3) Except for the Keychat relay, which is run by us, Keychat is a local app. We also don’t operate any Cashu mint. And no matter which Cashu mint you use, the operator cannot see your cash flow — that’s precisely the point of ecash.
You guys reply fast!
I guess I need to learn about Cashu ecash now...
4) Even if Keychat is removed from the App Store, existing users can still continue using the version they’ve already downloaded. However, it won’t be possible to update the app or for new users to download it from the App Store. You can export all your data in the settings and then import it into the macOS, Windows, Linux, or Android version of Keychat to keep using it.
