telling on himself. cashu is a bearer instrument system with no built-in technical mechanism that prevents a mint from issuing more tokens than they have in bitcoin reserves. mints can operate with less than 100% backing and may never be caught doing so. this is an attack on bitcoin because it enables custodians to covertly circumvent the hard cap.

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Any centralised system can and will do that.

Glad Monero got rid of third parties and is now nearly fully self-custodied.