I have people zapping me large enough amounts, that the fees are not an issue. People are moving hundreds or thousands of dollars over ecash, at the moment. Kinda crazy.
And really is asking for a rug pull. 🤷♀️
Discussion
eCash: High stakes hide-and-seek with your sats.
large payments yes onchain but that is not the norm on Nostr, makes sense to be LN first/mostly. Still you have some problems, if you use a static address you loose your privacy, so it would be better to use paynim or silent payments, but not all wallets support these. I think it would be possible to run a simple app on any always on pc/laptop that would generate bitcoin addresses from your wallet, and nostr clients could just send a specific nip04 to your app npub to request an address.
Running a server (that's a server, not an app, as it's constantly running a service) is the thing we're trying to get around.
I think we can see, that Nostr has been steadily discouraging self-custody options and funneling everyone into "private" and "good UX" e-cash. I'm interested in some pushback. E-cash is probably less-secure than Monero or USDT, in practice, as the chances of getting rugged are quite high.
And what is the norm, depends upon the use case. We should maybe think harder about use cases, where people might want to move more than 1000 sats. Those use cases apparently exist and aren't rare, but people shouldn't be using ecash for them, out of desperation and exasperation.
Best options silent payments or paynym, eg: https://paynym.rs/+nappydirection53 what matters is the payment code.
Yeah, we can use those.