You can copy and input that string into a wallet like cashu.me or eNuts and redeem that way

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Yo pretty cool!

I'm surprised it's gonna cost me 4k Sats to send it via lightning tho. Fees are low

Wow, that’s a lot. Must be a new channel creation type thing or something? I’m not 100% sure about the cashu protocol and how it all interfaces with lightning.

I'm assuming it's the new channel creation but it still seems high for a base chain fee

I thought cashu relies on the mints lightning channels

im still learning and don't have a response

Me too, I want to run my own mint

That is really high! Weird. What mint is it?

minibits

That’s one of the ones I use too.

Yeah this sounds like a lightning node issue. Did you not have an existing lightning wallet?

Just FYI receiving small transactions to a new node with no channels is an expensive proposition. Your service provider probably has a minimum channel size and you are being charged for extra inbound liquidity.

Best practice is to fund a new lightning wallet with a large on-chain transaction. Then spend your balance down naturally or swap it out with a submarine swap. That way you have a large channel balance ready ahead of time with inbound liquidity. This lets you avoid paying high time preference fees.

Worst practice is to start with a small channel and have to increase the size of your channel each time you receive a payment. It sounds like you might be doing the latter. You might as well use Muun b/c you are transacting on chain for each LN payment. 😬

I've gone down the road far enough to know that I don't want to manage lightning channels

haha samesies

The mint can set any amount it wants i guess to redeem. This is just another way they can scam ya.

This is true. Hopefully any mints not being straightforward about this won’t be used / will get called out.

Wallet of Satoshi could have done this too.

I wouldn't rush to blame the mint without more info. Sounds like a lightning wallet setup issue.

Don't use eNuts it isn't maintained. Use cashu.me or nostr:nprofile1qqstxwlea9ah3u6kjjszu6a7lrnhqkfh8eptp2z6v0e9558tlkkl2rgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszxnhwden5te0wfjkccte9ekkjmnfvf5hguewvdshx6p07xr4s5 . Sounds like you are trying to open a channel with the token. Cashu doesn't take fees to redeem. There are fees to send a lightning transaction however.

It doesn’t, won’t or can’t? Seems like that would be a good mint business model

cashu mints CAN't take fees to redeem ("swap") tokens, they SHOULD however take fees to melt or mint tokens (i.e. move in and out of the mint).

Second eNuts or CashU. eNuts is in app stores. Cashu.me is a PWA.

Cashu can integrate with NWC too!