We hope more people can have their own Lightning Network channels, enabling them to have self-custodial LN wallets.

If new users (who doesn't yet have their own LN channel) needs to receive LN sats, but the amount is not sufficient to open a LN channel (due to the need to pay an on-chain transaction fee), they can use the LN channel of a trusted ecash mint to receive them.

The ecash mint gives them ecash sats. Once they have accumulated enough ecash sats, they can open their own LN channel.

Ecash sat is a bridge to self-custodial LN sat. nostr:note1cp60u4kwglcr9f3phnfyn05akr7saw68rzkj5euyj6r9e85dsalqaaa8xt