A unique feature of Cashu wallets is that you can have multiple small balances on half a dozen mints.

The moment you pay an Invoice, you can choose which mint to pay from. It's something I started truly appreciating only after using Minbits and eNuts actively on nostr.

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Can we monetize cashu mints somehow? So that their only way of being economically feasible isn't rugpulling?

We are adding transaction fees to the protocol. The time of anonymous but free payments will have to end. I wish there was a better option but there isn't afaik.

Then, mint operators can earn fees.

do mint operators set the fees? very cool

Yes

Fees are fine it's capitalism. If a lot of mints are used they anyhow tend to go to very low amounts.

Bingo. Use the free market for what it is good at: driving service costs down in a competitive environment.

noob question: can't mints just issue less ecash than the sats they receive?

Would running your own mint keep you from having to pay fees? Are fees only on sending?

I think it's a good idea to stimulate the system.

You might consider adding fees only at the time of tokenizing when creating and deleting Ecash from a mint or transfer between mints. Keeping transactions Ecash free of fees in a same mint protocol.

Sadly, that's the part that needs fees the most...

I will continue using #Cashu with or without fees friend, the system is incredible. It will only make it better 😉☕⚡

It's the price of anonymity, literally!

The fees will still be lower than Lightning.

This sounds like adding artificial friction into the system. from a technical perspective exchanging tokens is just swapping blinded signatures, which shouldn't be that hard.

I agree that the expectation that the mints will hold your sats forever without a fee is unrealistic. but couldn't having an explicit expiration date on tokens solve this?

I haven't thought about it that much though... so I'm missing something

Friction is exactly what this is supposed to achieve.

This is the way.

Could also be storage fees instead of transaction fees ?

I guess the only time to charge is during a send (answered my own question)

If you aren’t paying for your nutz 🥜Your nutz 🍒 are paying for you.

You get it…

fees should be % based still allow smaller amounts of payload. most important is mints should be fully tested n production when charging. remove PoC TestOnly banner take responsibility for any outage or mixup

This is really nice but we need an easier way to consolidate/switch mints across all wallets. For instance, I would like to easily transfer most of my sats to my own mint for security reasons. eNuts already allows it, but not Minibits afaik. An auto feature you can setup by default would be even better.

i don‘t believe you

This sounds like a huge feature, not a bug