I want to be able to use that ecash to do other things, particularly, I want to use that ecash to do something I couldn't do with the sats. And I do not expect to turn my ecash back into sats. I think this means that I'm buying ecash from the mint and when I do, I give up my claim to the bitcoin. [...]
I see a lot of people asking questions (either as posts, or in a comment) and their questions are getting replies, but then those replies are earning zero sats. [...]