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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken, 1921

Okay, I just confirmed this: Create an account with getalby.com You'll get an ln address like babeswhobitcoin@getalby.com Now put that into any QR generator and print it out. I just tried this sending from MutinyWallet to my seperate account at Alby and it worked! https://image.nostr.build/ Here, I've even made the QR for you.

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So ISPs are money transmitters too then since I do online banking through them, and so is google since I use their devices, and so is Firefox, etc.

#ecash #cashu #fedimint

Can someone explain to me who the fudge are these ecash mints? Not to dox them, but are they people? Or are they pieces of software? And why should I have to worry about trusting a mint? Why can't I just trust an open source mint protocol? That's really what I'm getting at. I don't even want to trust a 7 of 9 or whatever mint with 9 people involved. Can't it be that the ecash protocol is an automated single sig basic wallet that can create LN channels and it mints ecash on demand and we all just use the same distributed ecash mint protocol? (Is it possible to build a program which holds private keys that are unaccessible to even the coder of the program?)

I guess I really don't understand the likelihood of getting ecash rugged. And I'm not clear on how decentralized or robust the mints are from attack.

https://www.youtube.com/@MarkPassio He leverages etymology and digging into word meetings quite a bit throughout his work. My favorite observation of his, or whoever he learned it from: "Government" = Govern + ment, as in mentis, mind. Govern mind = mind control. (!!) 🤣

Reminds me of my Mark Passio bingeing days.

Who exactly are people petitioning for this? The word police? Lol so dumb.