What is Nostr?
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2025-02-03 20:20:09
in reply to nevent1q…xkrr

JSKitty on Nostr: > be your own bank (custodial) If it is custodial, then you are not being your own ...

> be your own bank (custodial)

If it is custodial, then you are not being your own bank, that is entirely contradictory, no?

As I see so far (and I’ve read cashu.space just now, as you suggested), it seems to just be an open-source improvement over the traditional banking system, and if that’s the aim… it could genuinely be useful for that exact purpose: replacing the traditional transactional system with a privacy-oriented, modular system.

But I feel the people being *onboarded* with this system are going to be misled in to a false sense of security; what if the mint provider exits? What then will their opinion of Bitcoin be?

Sorry for the long wall, rather verbose, I'm just genuinely curious — as a user of Bitcoin since <2013, on what Cashu/eCash is intended for… I hate the idea of potentially onboarding someone in a way that LOOKS good, but practically, may harm them in the long run.
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