Can anyone recommend an article on the privacy benefits of using a cashu mint to send and receive lightning payments? How private are each? What are any other advantages or disadvantages? Bonus points if the articles can explain it to me like I'm five. 😆
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Its a lightning token that is generated that doesn't contain any information other than the payment token. Wich will be confirmed by the receiver and the mint.
No article but trust me bro that's my understanding of it.
nostr:npub1cj6ndx5akfazux7f0vjl4fyx9k0ulf682p437fe03a9ndwqjm0tqj886t6 has some really well written articles. But TLDR ecash guarantees unlinkability of the transactions, meaning the Mint that gives you ecash wont be able to tell who you give that to.
The extent of this unlinkability depends on some factors, for example if the Mint has only a few users thats not very private or through amount fingerprinting. Lastly -and this is lesser known- if your cashu wallet is checking the state of sent ecash (in cashu.me you can disable it) that also could break the unlinkabilty.
I dont know if this is exactly what you are after but this explains ecash and cashu
yes another simple explainer article for you:
