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

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 

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jb55 wants to build a stacker-news like client

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> 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