I've recently found out by depositing a small amount of sats to my
[nutshell wallet][2]
that you don't[need to backup anything else other than the mnemonic phrase to restore your funds][1]
. To find out for yourself just delete.cashu directory and then restore the wallet from the mnemonic phrase. Your funds should still be there. The maintainer of the wallet himself [mentioned this improvement in backups on Citadel Dispatch][3]
.[This is the relevant PR][4]
.Disclaimer: That works with the wallet's default mint, i.e. https://8333.space:3338 . I have not tested other mints.
[1]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/122001/do-i-have-to-backup-cashu-wallet-wallet-sqlite3-of-my-nutshell-wallet-in-orde
[2]: https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/live/RvxSmnxcyQA?si=vnT3jw8Io9Pa7OQm
[4]: https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/pull/131
Yes is very interesting.
What I am trying myself when is about ecash is to avoid saying "funds".
Ecash is all about tokens, not real funds. Funds are used only when you "redeem" those tokens into a LN wallet, out of the mint.
I know, will be hard to remove from our mind this term.
Yeah, ecash is IOU-BTC tokens rather than funds.