Cash is just a transferable credit note. Cashu is an electronic version of that. ‘Money’ is whatever is acceptable for exchange, Bitcoin, in our case. Cashu is just another transfer instrument - better privacy, but with additional counterparty risk, namely the owner of the mint.

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Let’s be precise, it’s easier to write code:

Cashu (and Fedimint) is ‘Issuer Risk’, not ‘Counterparty risk’.

Fair point. I was including issuer risk in a more general definition of counterparty.