As long as these mints are used in tightly knit communities and not some Coinbase mint with millions of users ...
I have high hopes for Chaumian mints, too but fear people will put all their funds into the same few providers' wallets.
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payjoin, coinjoin, musig2.
We can nearly half tx sizes. Just a matter of building protocols and interfaces to make it accessible.
I agree, if implemented wisely, the mint's incentives should be aligned with the user's goals. This typically can happen easily in smaller closed ecosystems.
When you scale up to larger coinbase-like ecosystems, you end up with a wider variety of intent and invariably will end up with some users in opposition of the mint's incentives.
Unfortunately it's less friction to create the latter so invariably there will be large centralized mints primed for a ruggening.
There will be the Amazon mint, the Walmart mint, the Netflix mint, the Apple mint, the Google mint… it won’t be centralized at all. lol.