30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 23 Jan \ parent \ on: Fedimint and Cashu ecash are gift cards ecash
Great points. Imagine if gift cards were all their own little ecash mints and you could spend the gift card you bought at a BBQ place in Boise at a small bar in Avignon.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @tolot 23 Jan
Yepp that would be nice. Fortunately enough, bitcoin protocol is a common language that multiple hardware devices and software products can speak, and Lightning is a protocol that has the same characteristics. Fiat rails cannot enable cross-merchant gift-card settlements if a merchant-specific agreement doesn't exist. Fair enough, I'll stick with bitcoin ahaha
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