Damus
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Tim Bouma
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All existing payment systems are account-based. They are 100% surveillable and individually ruggable.

With Cashu, it’s now possible to create a bearer-token-based payment system. This payment system is much harder to surveil and almost impossible to rug specific individuals.
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nostrich · 91w
a bearer instrument is an asset that when held , the holder irrecoverable owns it. If that asset is a bearer instrument and is in a fedimint, the fedimint owns it.