you give up sovereignty for privacy. bad tradeoff. I would be fine with it if you could upgrade to self custody, but you can't, it makes no sense to run a cashu node for yourself.
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I'm fine with giving up sovereignty for certain things. Add long as the majority of my coins are sovereign. This gives me the opportunity to have a piece of both worlds.
Not everyone will be completely sovereign with their money. More and more are becoming that way, thankfully, but in the meantime, privacy is of utmost importance when using custodial solutions.
i get that, but there should be an upgrade path for those who want it. there is none with cashu.
it should not be "cashu for signal" it should be "NWC+lightning for signal". fine it can use a cashu mint by default. the desire to force people into custodial solutions seems very anti-bitcoin to me, and I don't know why so many cashu grifters are pushing this angle.
Could cashu be used by someone acting as an Uncle Jim? That'd be less of a tradeoff than a completely unknown 3rd party. Most people don't even want to consider complete sovereignty and still have too much trust in our old institutions to deal with the hassle. I don't think anyone is being forced to use custodial solutions, but for those that do, complete transactional privacy should be the norm.
yeah I think that's the best setup