Any good non-tech resources you can point me to to learn about silent bitcoin payments and cashu?

I just need a chance to actually use it to buy/pay for something.

Agree with this framing. I just want people to understand the trust assumptions (most won’t care but nonetheless important). I see a good number of folks who appear to be newer to Bitcoin who do not seem to understand the trade-offs, and I rarely see ecash proponents acknowledge them (obviously this is what tends to happen for just about any topic in human existence 😁).

By having a more open convo earlier on about trade-offs we avoid setting an overly high expectation that could get violated later. Lightning itself I think to some degree experienced this.