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If every person that zapped you used a different mint and you swapped every zap to your mint, it would be no different fee wise than it is today.

But in reality, people will coalesce around mints. They have less centralization forces than custodial lightning wallets, but will still tend to centralize. Because of this you won't swap individual zaps. You'll probably only swap once your untrusted mint balance hits a certain threshold. This logic could even be baked right into clients. Because of this, you will end up saving on fees.
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corndalorian 1y ago

This makes sense. It does sound a bit like what we already have with Alby, WoS, etc, and users coalescing around those few providers. But I realize that Cashu offers some additional usability over existing custodial lightning. My main concern is in identifying which mints are the trustworthy ones.

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. 1y ago

I have spent a lot of time in all the cashu telegram groups. I have used every major cashu wallet. All the conversation is positive. The level of support has been excellent. The devs have gone above and beyond to solve individual issues personally. I use minibits mint as my primary mint. I have moved all zaps out and in and back out testing the mint. Open honest transparent building is our best option and Calle has led the open source teams on integrity and clarity. FOSS in action.