mleku on Nostr: also, the privacy question, this is entirely about the set of sizes and numbers of ...

also, the privacy question, this is entirely about the set of sizes and numbers of tokens with e-cash, and the total number of tokens issued, so actually ecash mints have to have a lot of users, and it's a chicken and egg problem with privacy

compare and contrast to keysend and AMP on lightning, which only exposes the network location of the receiver, who can optionally run their lightning node on tor, and connect to other nodes via lightning nodes that have both dark and clearnet connections (which also has the problem of anonymity set but i'm pretty sure there is quite a number of tor and clearnet connected lightning nodes)

quoting nevent1q…fe8f

lightning can do these tiny ones too but in addition it can do and i regularly use it for $100-200 size which is not a micropayment, that's more than i spend on my groceries at a typical visit to the store