Replying to Wonteet Zebugs

I see it in terms of degrees.

ecash, I'm willing to stomach the mint rug pull risk up to a certain (very limited) amount in exchange for the low fees, the easy onboarding and the extra privacy.

Liquid, I'm willing to stomach the rug pull risk up to a higher amount in exchange for the same advantages.

So I see it like :

1. ecash for very low amounts,

2. liquid for small amounts,

3. mainnet for the real stuff.

The rug pull risk on liquid is lower because of the reputational damage that would befall the bad actors, and many would have to collude or be forced to be bad actors by a government. So the risk is real but manageable for low amounts.

And for really small amounts, I love ecash for the extra privacy.

For onboarding a new user, both ecash and liquid are wonderful. It's just important to let them know, from the beginning, how to go back to mainnet as soon as it hits a higher threshold.

#liquid #ecash #cashu
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jimbocoin 🃏 9mo ago

I think that’s reasonable. I have no problem with people choosing different options along the custody spectrum. Every option comes with a different tradeoff between difficulty, privacy, rug risk, and fucked-it-up risk.

Tools of the future will probably navigate some of this fluidly, automatically, which will be good for users. Advanced users can make their own tradeoffs more explicitly.

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Wonteet Zebugs 8mo ago

I'd love to have a wallet that can do it all and can automate some of the transfers between those solutions. For example, up to 50$ = ecash, more than that up to 500$ = liquid, and then more than that = back to onchain. Something like that.

Coinos.io is fully custodial but they have a setting where they can *automatically* send anywhere you want if you hit a certain threshold amount, while keeping in the wallet however much you want. Very convenient.

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calle 8mo ago

Check out blitz wallet, it does exactly that.

https://blitz-wallet.com

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Wonteet Zebugs 8mo ago

Oh, right! I remember trying it and it just didn't seem to work on my phone (the little logo just kept going and not creating the wallet). Looking at the website again, it really does seem perfect. I'll try again. Thank you!