I’ve seen plenty of ecash in use here at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r — some fedimints and cashu.
What we as users need and want are simple products to run our own mints as easily as a start9/umbrel app or btcpay server plugin. Hell, even a digital ocean image.
If we’re using someone else’s lightning node, it might as well be our own