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A gift card is not an "account"

Yes it is

People just trust institutions

That doesnt justify affinity scamming ECash with Bitcoin, it doesnt even make better custodians... that narrative is just a scam

mess with liquidity and onchain fees and balancing

That's already automated even in shitwallet like mobile apps, also doesn't need to be everyone... a custodian of 100 or so extended family members is absolutely achievable

LSPs will be institutionalized

Wrong again, bootstrap peers will displace LSP's using nostr as a social graph and marketplace

Also your projection has nothing to do with whether or not ECash is a scam. Cope harder

still better than plain text transaction logs of users

In your imagination, but they are effectively the exact same. The cryptographic theater doesn't change the fact a custodian has countless ways, both known and unknown, to gain insights

By portraying ECash as better, you're lying yourself right into another trap... ECash is the real rat poison

What's the difference between this system and, say, an ecash mint?

An ECash mint can be used in free banking, that does not mean it's inherently free banking

banknotes

ECash is exactly like banknotes, that's the scam... it'll be used by the US Treasury and capture Bitcoin just like the central banks used notes to capture Gold

Centralization will always trend this way, hense decentralization is paramount above all else.. and that ain't aligned with ECash

What can we do? Build better tools for self custody

Yea, not ECash

ECASH IS LESS PRIVATE NOT MORE