this is true, if a mint became reputable and reliable on its own, there is no need for a store to be a mint, and then there would be no distinction between the store and the customer. 

BeeAye

a darknet market can integrate ecash without telling an ecash mint what it's doing, without even \*communicating\* with an ecash mint

by design, mints don't know who their users are

so the mint would never know a darknet market was one of its users

supertestnet

privacy

Is ecash private enough for dark markets?

purpurato

the problem is the risk for the mint, as i see it, of running an ecash for its darknet store. yes, the customers' funds would be very difficult to track what purchases they made, but the mint still needs to serve as the clearing house from their ecash to lightning...so that would be very risky. 