I just don’t want to see people I helped onboard get rekt. It’s a lot of responsibility.

It’s weird. We went from “don’t trust, verify” to “only use mints you trust” and I’m just asking a basic question about how a new user with no experience would be able to decide which one to trust.

Can’t fix stupid

I lost more money running a lightning routing node than with ecash lol

Yes, but then your only point of failure is yourself.

Sounds extra special In reality you would just be using 2 different lightning address and paying double the fees every time you want to sEnD nUtS 😂

I heard a shitcoiner say that same thing before 😆

Mints that haven’t rugged me: minibits.cash lnvolts.com 21mint.me I’ve also used lnserver.com, which at one point had a data error that caused me to lose some of my proofs, but they made good on it for me, and I trust them based on their reputation.

So we’re back to telling noobs to run their own hardware again. Why bother running a mint for yourself, just run a Lightning node.

I do, but would only be an Uncle Jim for my immediately family. Never for anyone else.

I’d rather help others become self-reliant than depend on me.

As much as I love the cypherpunk goals of ecash, I think most people are more likely to choose a custodial Lightning or layer 2 service from a company they’ve heard of rather than pick a mint out of a hat. It doesn’t mean anyone should give up on the dream, just take it with a dose of reality.

Yes, I’ve contributed some sats to that project.

I think people are using in the wrong way these public cashu mints. A good example of using cashu mint is @bf093d0f…7d8d632d. They created a local community mint and promote it around their merchants and users. That add a good trust level and communication between users. I think this is the main utility for a cashu mint. If you do not have a local community mint, and you have to use a random public one, then better use these lists and choose wisely: - https://audit.8333.space - https://bitcoinmints.com Use them with small amounts and do not keep everything in just one mint. I hope soon we will have multi-mint spending so will be easier to manage multiple mints. Don't abuse these mints! I've seen people using them as coinjoin services... that's wrong. Moving around large amounts of sats through mints you are disrupting their liquidity with unnecessary transactions. Behind every mint is a LN node. Not all have a good management of liquidity and you will encounter problems, stuck funds, lost keys etc. People must understand how mint tokens works, are not just some papers where it says "IOU x sats"... are more than that and are many technical details that cashu devs didn't explained to the end user so well. So do your own research and read how these cashu tokens works.

If you don’t know if you can trust the mint, you can’t trust the mint. That’s the point. 2 options. 1) Find one you can trust with people you know. 2) start one (then it’s self custody bonus) and share with people you trust.

A few thousand in all, as far back as Mutiny. I even lost over 1K to a fedimint once.

And that is a wrong approach. I strongly encourage all knowledgeable bitcoiners to start building these local communities, being a local "LN bank" and "local cashu mint". I wrote some guides about these aspects: 1. https://darth-coin.github.io/merchants/private-banks-over… 2. https://darth-coin.github.io/wallets/bitcoin-adoption-usi… Take the example of the @b4aa3cfa…10a4d656 brazilian community https://www.lnvoltz.xyz/en/brln-academy BE THE CHANGE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE CHANGE IN THIS FUCKED UP WORLD

It’s hard out there being a crash test dummy.

how? the mint is up, did you try to restore from seed?

that must be some bug, if the seed is correct, restore should work without issues. pls try again in cashu.me

then my guess is something else must be going on. restore is very reliable.

yes, the restore has a gap limit like with Bitcoin on-chain

which wallet were you using this seed with?

I can only give my honest account. People who come to our meetups have practical questions about literally every topic you can imagine, and I try to find answers for them. It’s part of the learning process.

How are noobs expected to understand gap limits? I was told restoring a wallet was a foolproof process that works every time.

You get one chance with people, and if they think they’ve been rugged, they won’t come back. I still run into people all the time who are convinced Lightning is a scam because they had sats on BlueWallet before April 2023 and they went back to withdraw them and couldn’t, because the node had been taken down.

Making it about me doesn’t fix the inherent problems. I’m sure you’d much rather face these questions now when Cashu sill has a tiny user base rather than waiting until there a billion users trying to onboard. And I don’t believe I’ve heard anything about how mint capacity (not to mention trust) scales to meet that level of use.

yes, it's custodial

we’re open to contributions

Thanks @e62adca2…27ed5931, appreciate the kind words! 🥰

fuck off bcasher

Who, me? The guy who crash tests every wallet I can get my hands on with real sats (and sometimes loses them) so I can help other people not lose theirs? Sorry for looking out for new users, but that’s not gonna stop. People ask me questions and I try to find answers.