I was thinking more along the lines of the oxchat e-cash wallet being compared to a lightning node and the selected mints being compared to channels. So CoinOs is being compared to something like the Zeus LSP, Oxchat is being compared to Albyhub. And I was thinking if individual plebs created mints, it would be similar to lightning channels.......

On a scale of 0-100 how retarded is the comparison.

> Whats the difference between me having a lightning channel opened to CoinOs vs me using a CoinOS mint to hold a portion of my e-cash.

I think you wanted to say using CoinOS that holds ecash from _your_ mint?

> A recreation of the lightning network where mints are channels, weird to think about and definitely not fully flushed out....but strange at the very least.

I think you would be interested in reading about [hosted channels](https://fanismichalakis.fr/posts/what-are-hosted-channels/)

Whats the difference between me having a lightning channel opened to CoinOs vs me using a CoinOS mint to hold a portion of my e-cash.

What if it was as easy to create and manage a mint like it was to open a lightning channel and manage its liquidity with a peer.

A recreation of the lightning network where mints are channels, weird to think about and definitely not fully flushed out....but strange at the very least.

mostly_harmless

Channels

elvismercury

I was thinking, 

Whats the difference between me having a lightning channel opened to CoinOs vs me using a CoinOS mint to hold a portion of my e-cash. 

And then

What if it was as easy to create and manage a mint like it was to open a lightning channel and manage its liquidity with a peer. 

A recreation of the lightning network where mints are channels, weird to think about and definitely not fully flushed out....but strange at the very least. 