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Dan 1y ago

If someone is working on eCash zaps, they should backup and try to make the spec flexible enough to adapt to Ark tokens

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Alex B. 1y ago

What are Ark tokens?

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Dan 1y ago

I think I'm confused... Reading through the docs, trying to wrap my head around how offline receives work. I don't understand what an ark address is.

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Alex B. 1y ago

I don't think zapping with Ark makes a lot of sense.

It's not exactly intended for high-velocity and cheap payments.

(Though it definitely supports them through Lightning)

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Dan 1y ago

Sounds like I need to do more research haha

I thought the main benefits were offline receives, frictionless onboarding, cheap intra-ASP payments, and stronger sovereignty, which sounded perfect for zaps. But I need to spend some more time wrapping my head around this 😄

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Alex B. 1y ago

It's cheap but not ecash cheap.

Anytime you are dealing with non-custodial systems you have to pay for this stronger sovereignty there's no way around it.

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Dan 1y ago

Yea that makes sense. Tradeoffs have to exist somewhere

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Ark Labs 1y ago

If we assume that for tipping and donation, the risk of "double spend" is minimal for the recipient (why the tipper/donor did in the first place?) I think is worth for the self-custodial aspect of it (little vtxos are custodial, but compound over-time and can be consolidated in bigger VTXO or UTXO)