Dont tell people what to do just because Lightning sucks ass.
I think people are using in the wrong way these public cashu mints.
A good example of using cashu mint is nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqqyzlsj0g0jjs9ntlc97qenlj93yyrc8kvks7r74m99d7e08ta343j6f7elyx.
They created a local community mint and promote it around their merchants and users. That add a good trust level and communication between users. I think this is the main utility for a cashu mint.
If you do not have a local community mint, and you have to use a random public one, then better use these lists and choose wisely:
Use them with small amounts and do not keep everything in just one mint. I hope soon we will have multi-mint spending so will be easier to manage multiple mints.
Don't abuse these mints! I've seen people using them as coinjoin services... that's wrong. Moving around large amounts of sats through mints you are disrupting their liquidity with unnecessary transactions. Behind every mint is a LN node. Not all have a good management of liquidity and you will encounter problems, stuck funds, lost keys etc.
People must understand how mint tokens works, are not just some papers where it says "IOU x sats"... are more than that and are many technical details that cashu devs didn't explained to the end user so well. So do your own research and read how these cashu tokens works.
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fuck off bcasher
Dont have to be a bcasher to realize how much lightning sucks.
Been 3 times to el salvador and saw the disaster. Everyone uses trusted third parties. Wake up you moron.
What disaster happened in El Salvador regarding lightning?
Everybody uses custodial wallets, that means - not your keys, not your coins - you use a trusted third party which holds your coins and sees all your transactions.
This is not Bitcoin, this is a credit card. All advantages of BTC are gone.
This is a new perspective. I’ve never heard anyone say lightning “sucks ass”.
Could you explain your reasoning as to why you’ve come to this conclusion regarding lightning please?
What is a better solution than lightning?
I personally believe ecash via the Fedimint protocol is an excellent choice. There are tradeoffs to everything. But to say lightning “sucks ass” I’d say is a bit obtuse in your criticism.
Lightning may be no good for the implementation you’re looking for…that’s logical. But to say it “sucks ass” (overall) is a narrow viewpoint.
have you ever used it with a self custodial wallet?