this has been the elephant in the room for way too long

A [comment](http://njump.me/nevent1qqs0yylyzpmq64909xt9wzjshevkg9ue04fz7t4tjnvauymdaucagrglg6l7x) in the same thread...
> i want to use zaps for ranking top posts in a reddit style community, you can’t use zaps for this now because people can create fake zaps. But if clients can validate an ecash zap against a mint that might be more reliable.

Another validation of your previous highlight https://stacker.news/items/929830/r/supratic

supratic

Love to see people talking on nostr that you cannot build something like SN with how their zaps currently work!

 and others will come up with. So far, sounds like it’s going to use cashu mints. Makes sense, but I don’t like the custodial aspect of it.

If each community has to run their own lightning node to run a mint on top, why not use wrapped invoices like we do to stay non-custodial? I replied to the note with this question.

nostr

Love to see people talking on nostr that you cannot build something like SN with how their zaps currently work!

Excited what @jb55 and others will come up with. So far, sounds like it’s going to use cashu mints. Makes sense, but I don’t like the custodial aspect of it.

If each community has to run their own lightning node to run a mint on top, why not use wrapped invoices like we do to stay non-custodial? I replied to the note with this question.