Awesome, the wallet alone will start in a trusted mode if you don't give it a node nprofile, but we plan to automate cloud nodes eventually so you can start building a balance for that right away. Don't hesitate to ping me with issues/questions.

Blinded paths hide the destination of receiving node from the sender, otherwise they can decode that information from the invoice. Cashu doesn't help with that when settling to Lightning because the mints are still communicating out of band to do the settlement.

Cashu is meant more to eliminate "accounts" at a custodian and anonymize payments between its own users transacting internally, which means the custodian needs to have a large anonset for it to be useful. The custodian still sees all Lightning traffic because each spend is effectively a swap, which means a large mint is a Lightning surveillance chokepoint.

I'm opposed to Cashu because it's a total larp in every setting other than a bank-scale custodian that doesn't use Lightning. With bank-scale custodians that do use Lightning it fools unsophisticated users into a surveillance chokepoints. Worst of both worlds, self-custodial key responsibility with none of the benefits of actual self-custody. The dishonesty of Cashu astroturf being a cherry on top of my distaste...