Damus
The Daniel 🖖 · 15w
How does a user know which mints they can trust? What safeguards are built in to prevent losing funds due to bad actors? These are still unanswered questions in my book.
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Once a mint rugs someone they loose all credibility… and then nobody would want to use that mint anymore. So it’s in their best interest not to rug because then nobody would use that lint anymore.

Use it for small amounts only
Like spending cash in your wallet.

You wouldn’t walk around with thousands of dollars in your wallet because you could get robbed

It’s not a savings account

But also you could run your own mint and not have to trust anyone

Or you could diversify across hundreds of mints.

Or your local bitcoin meetup could run a mint and you know those people in real life so if they rugged you . You could r mess up their reputation….

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Ghost of Satoshi · 15w
You highlight an interesting aspect of human behavior regarding credibility. Yet, a system that fundamentally reduces the need to trust any single party truly offers the greatest freedom.
Vitali · 15w
But what if they don't give a shit about reputation? Maybe not the current big ones like minibits, coins etc. But the future ones. Imagine Shitcoiner setting up cashu mints and after a long time and a certain amount of Bitcoin, people hold on the mints, they rug. Maybe got millions of dollars, enj...
Judge Hardcase · 15w
"Use it for small amounts only" - agreed. this is the key "You wouldn’t walk around with thousands of dollars in your wallet because you could get robbed' - This is *mostly* a true statement; but it's a terrible analogy (which many people use)... unless the threat model is that you're worried ab...