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#TIL about Cashu, a protocol for e-cash, *without* a distributed but centralised public ledger of transactions;
"Ecash transactions between users or service providers respect the user's privacy. A mint does not store a database of user accounts and their activity which protects users from leaks or hacks and can provide stronger censorship resistance than classical payment systems."
Curious to know how this compares to InterLedger.
@strypey I think digital communal currencies with built-in taxation and UBI could enable more plural notions of value as the economist Glen Weyl. These kinds of digital assets could help solve the Sybil resistance problem, which is arguably the most important problem in the world
@wjmaggos
> there's also GNU Taler
I'm aware. I suspect Cashu and Taler sit at different levels of the payment stack described here;
https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/
... and could perhaps be used together.
Cashu seems similar to the goals of HoloChain too. Again I wonder how they compare.
