Yeah I mean cashu means going back to central banking again… with cashu you need to trust the 3rd party (mint) and they could: collect IPs, correlate deposits and withdrawals… Plus what a bank does: freeze redemption, run fractional reserves, censor users, etc.
And just because of this, it wouldn’t pass the dark market test.
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2026-05-23 00:27:12 UTC
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