Since I was just playin‘ around a little with macadamia wallet on iOS and cashu.me on a flight with no connection (which of course didn‘t work) I ask myself: Wouldn‘t it be a cool feature if one could have something like an offline section within a cashu wallet where one can hold some pre-minted funds (tokens) for spending in disconnected environments. I know I can store tokens anywhere I want but I would expect a much better UX. (P2PK?) Is this already possible? Does it even make sense? Sorry, zero technical expertise here. Just enthusiasm! nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
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Huh...I thought the wallet balance (cashu tokens) is literally a file on the device anyway? So shouldn't a cashu-transaction just work between 2 offline parties?
Macadamia tries to generate the token after you entered a specific
amount. Then you obviously need to be online.
As I mentioned. You can of course pre-mint some tokens, store them wherever you want on your device (or even on a piece of paper) and transfer them in a disconnected situation. However I wouldn’t call this an attractive user experience. And if you haven’t generated the token before you can’t do anything.
I mean, it's is the very nature of ecash. If you don't want to carry around tokens on your device, you have to stick with lightning as a L2. I'm not sure what your point is..
So either use ecash like ecash is supposed to be used and just get yourself some tokens from a mint (then you can use it when u need it, also offline)
..or use a network based payment system 🤡