To me (as long as we keep the protocol that way); lightning and UTXO's are married. One-to-One.

You can have sats in a ⚡ wallet, or on-chain (UTXO)

Yes, as you know, technically all lightning comes from UTXO's, thus collapsing back to the base layer.

I was noting this moreso as,

- People will always want UTXO's

- ⚡ is the same, but could have routing issues, so you just loop out to on-chain and pay that way

- ecash will always be at a discount, since its a form of credit for ⚡ basically

Unless we get more regular mints that issue ecash, only redeemable for UTXO's (I've said beofe, which would be great)

- now that to me is basically a "here's a credit for a UTXO anytime you want. Here, verify that we have the UTXO on-chain for you to claim at any time."

-- this would be great, because we'd be spending UTXO's off-line, without an on chain footprint. Similar to handing someone an opendime

I've always wanted a way to just hand someone ' a 12-word seedphrase'. Opendimes have a bit of friction (need to plug it in, copy/paste the addr, etc.). An ecash token, redeemable for a specific UTXO would be cool

- just scan QR code to see UTXO on chain.