If someone zapped ecash you from a random mint that you don't know or trust, what would you do?
- Ignore the zaps, I don't want them
- Accumulate zaps and withdraw some time later
- Withdraw every zap immediately to see if it's real money
Discussion
#3.. then #2
Interesting take. A wallet could withdraw every single zap until the user adds the mint to it's "semi-trusted" list, where the wallet would withdraw whenever a threshold is reached, until the user adds the mint to its "trusted" list where it is accumulated (and which can serve as a destination to withdraw to in #2 and #3).
Withdraw every zap immediately.
That's going to cause the most amount of fees (LN + possibly Ecash) but it would be the least "risky" strategy.
Every sat vs economically better:
I guess every sat is better, than economically better when you don't trust the mint.
But this would brake your privacy to the mint? Receiver has less privacy then sender, right?
I mean if this is a non-trusted mint, you want to share the least info with it.
Report myself and them to the FBI.
ignore
Withdraw immediately at least the first 2-3 times
#3
I'd do what I do with everything not Bitcoin. Dump it for sats.
Withdraw immediately
#2 Withdraw when it's more than you can stand to lose 👀 Whether it's 100, 1k or 10k is up to you 🤙
Not consider it a zap until it's successfully swapped to a mint I trust or my LN node.
If we allow random mint zaps to show up as zaps, we will destroy the zap economy.
With LN zaps, the sender doesn't control if it's a zap. The recipient sends the receipt. This is how it should be with e-cash, too.
Here is what I would do:
- come online and see a bunch of zaps from a bunch of weird mints I don't know and think "huh, cool"
- press a withdraw button that does the following: make a single multi-nut payment from any mint you don't trust, if the received balance exceeds say 10k sats, to your trusted mint and cleanse the untrusted balances.
The nice thing about receiving tips is that there is no expectation. Either you get something, or someone is trying to mess with you and it's easy to hide the second part from the user.
