Just so you know what they are going to try and go with:

Kids growing up today don't know what the internet could have been.

Ok I've built this for fun and it's incredible.

A Cashu gateway: it's a normal Cashu user who has a Lightning node (or another Lightning payment backend). Everyone can act like a gateway as long as the mint supports ecash HTLCs (NUT-15).

If you as a Cashu user know of such a gateway, your wallet can send your Lightning payment request to it instead of to the mint.

The gateway responds with an amount (it can take a fee). If you agree, you send it ecash, and it pays your Lightning invoice. The process is atomic.

What does that mean? Let's think a little ahead and imagine this was deployed on a significant scale.

Even if the mint is full KYC for peg-in and peg-outs, a user could still make Lightning payments anonymously with the help of other users.

(!!! this alone would be huge !!!)

This would also enable us to make on-chain-only mints which opens up a whole new way of building mints (reserves could be in a multisig for example).

Crazy part: Gateways can be lazy and use custodial Lightning backends. The user doesn't care as long as the invoice gets paid.

Yes. That means you could use your Strike or Blink or LNbits account to act as a Gateway for a Cashu mint you like.

There could be many of crazy people like you. Nobody would ever know. Neither the mint. nor your LN service provider would notice. They all just see invoices.

It gets weirder. Gateways could use *another Cashu mint* as an LN backend. I know sounds like an inception nut but bare with me.

A user of mint M1 can ask a gateway of mint M1 to pay an invoice. The gateway could pay the invoice via mint M2 and receive ecash from M1 in return.

I always thought "you could run a mint for a thousand users on a Strike or a Blink backend without them even noticing the smallest thing".

Now I think you could probably run a mint for 100k users without them noticing, if there are other gateways handling payments for everyone.

Note: this is still experimental. Only paying works right now over the gateway, not receiving (more complicated).

The bast part though is that it doesn't require any Cashu protocol changes and the mints don't have to give you permission to do this.

It's all pretty nuts.

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This is pegged

As a full-time VPN user you also end up becoming an expert at solving cutting edge CAPTCHAs.

Stable?

If i buy land, i have deeds to the land, i don’t need to pay tax. The land is mine. Or should be. We’ve allowed a system of theft to take pretty much anything

Fight me sounds like you want an argument. Tax on my land is wrong. It’s all made up BS. 34 trillion in debt, they need sacking. Taxes are theft period. Go print it

As you as you define land as a gov rental and not a property (as it is today), sure.

It is refreshing, it just doesn't have anything else to show :)

Can you elaborate on why you like Manjaro over original Arch?

It is very easy to violate the rights when no one is trying to oppose.

It is easy to ban #PoW in the #EU, develop very discriminatory language in policies since just a few bitcoin miners ready to defend themselves and meet with regulators.

Same easy to put very restrictive rules for cash and p2p transactions if just a few voices are standing in defense of financial freedom and privacy rights.

But solidarity of bitcoiners and human rights defenders can make the change. We can’t do all work alone.

We need your support, guys.

We have all instruments,l in hands, but we need to act jointly.

I copy-paste money all day.