Ecash on Bitcoin Educational Resources
Most of the resource pages for ecash haven't been updated in a while (probably because the people who made them are too busy building amazing things) so here's my attempt to assemble a list of educational resources for learning about ecash. Please let me know in the comments about any articles or resources that I've missed. I'm particularly interested in adding some long-form critiques of ecash on bitcoin.
I've been trying to learn about ecash implementations on bitcoin and have come across a lot of useful resources. Here is a post where I'm assembling them all in one place in case anyone else would like to check them out. I've listed most of the articles and podcasts by date (most recent first) so you can follow the evolution of discourse on the topic.
Protocols
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Fedimint is an implementation of ecash on Bitcoin where the mint is operated by a federation of guardians. You can get new coins from a fedimint by sending bitcoin to an address controlled by the federation or by paying a lightning invoice at a lightning node that is willing to talk to the mint for you. If you are interested in trying it out, some popular wallets using fedimints are Mutiny and Fedi (signet).
Guides
- DarthCoin's guide for setting up a mint
- Mutiny Tutorial by BTC Sessions
- Cashu Tutorial by BTC Sessions
- Super Testnet's guide for building your own toy Cashu implementation
- Mutiny Wallet Text Guide by @runningbitcoin on Stacker.News
- Minibits tutorial by BTC Sessions
- Enuts tutorial by BTC Sessions
- Fedi tutorial by BTC Sessions
Articles / Videos
2024-06-10 Cashu: A Vision for a Bitcoin-Powered Ecash System by Shinobi
2024-05-30 Summarizing My Thoughts on Ecash by @sethforprivacy
2024-05-27 Plebdevs Theory: Cashu Gets Nuttty by @gudnuf
2024-05-25 Is Cashu and Bitcoin Ecash the Future? by Ian Major
2024-05-21 Bitcoin Fixes Ecash by Marty Bent
2024-02-21 Ecash for Better Bitcoin Privacy by @maxmoney21
2024-01-22 MEOW: Mint Ecash on Will by @1440000bytes
2024-01-21 Ecash is Self-Custodial by Tony Giorgio
2023-11-06 Banks Without Bankers by Eric Yakes
2023-08-12 Bitcoin Demonimated Ecash without Custodial Risk by @moonsettler
2022-11-08 Fedimint Uses Trust to Change Bitcoin Self Custody by Obi Nwosu
2022-10-18 Chaumian Ecash in Bitcoin - Cashu and Fedimint by @waxwing
2022-07-26 Can Fedimints Help Scale Bitcoin to the World? by Alex Gladstein
2022-03-12 Fedimint - The Evolution of Bitcoin Custody by Obi Nwosu
Podcasts
2024-05-28 What Bitcoin Did EP818: The Fight for Bitcoin with Ben Carman & Tony Giorgio
2024-04-20 What Bitcoin Did EP802: A CheatCode for Payments with Natalie Brunell, Ben Arc, Calle, & Obi Nwosu
2024-04-09 Citadel Dispatch EP124: Mutiny Wallet with Tony, Ben, and Paul
2024-03-18 Citadel Dispatch EP 120: Bitcoin Powered Chaumian Ecash with Calle
2024-02-27 Stephan Livera Podcast EP 553: The Future of Bitcoin Banking with Eric Yakes
2024-02-19 Stephan Livera Podcast EP551: What’s Next for Bitcoin and Mutiny Wallet with Ben Carman
2023-10-28 Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S14 E18: Lisa Neigut & Calle on Scaling Bitcoin & Free Open Source Software
2023-10-09 Bitcoin Audible: FEATURING AI Unchained #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
2023-05-12 What Bitcoin Did EP657: How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin with Obi Nwosu
2023-05-12 TFTC EP 419: Fedi Is Connecting Communities With Freedom Technology with Obi Nwosu
2023-04-19 What Bitcoin Did EP647: Scaling Bitcoin Privacy with Calle
2023-03-01 What Bitcoin Did EP625: The Future of Bitcoin Banking with Eric Yakes
2023-01-28 Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S13 E1: Eric Sirion & Obi Nwosu on Fedimint & Fedi
2022-09-08 What Bitcoin Did EP551: Fedimint & the Future of Bitcoin Custody with Obi Nwosu
2022-08-13: Bitcoin Magazine Podcast: Bitcoin Fedimints Offer Privacy in Exchange for Trust and Custody
2022-07-26 Bitcoin Audible Read 639: How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin Custody (Namcios)
2022-07-25 TFTC EP 346: Diving into FediMint with the Fedi team
2022-07-21 Once Bitten! EP267: @obi - Introducing A New Way To Custody #Bitcoin!
2022-07-19: Bitcoin Fundamentals EP 87: Bitcoin Fedimint - A Decentralized Custody Protocol w/ Obi Nwosu
2021-12-16 Stephan Livera Podcast EP 331: Eric Sirion - MiniMint, Federated Mints for Bitcoin scaling and privacy
2021-11-23 Citadel Dispatch EP 45: The future of mobile lightning wallets with @ericsirion, @akumaigorodski, and @fiatjaf
2020-01-20 What Bitcoin Did EP184: Bitcoin's Pre-History and the Cypherpunks with Aaron van Wirdum