There's no need to force anyone into ecash. It is opt-in technology.

Example: a merchant could receive ecash via a physical terminal and NFC, or in a web checkout page, and, by default, always redeem the payment into their self-custodial Lightning wallet. >They don't need to trust the mint. They receive ecash and redeem the Bitcoin, and only then they give you the apple.

It's the paying user who benefits from ecash the most: they can make small, reliable, offline, privacy-preserving payments with all the other benefits of ecash. Original tweet: https://x.com/callebtc/status/1800416503097135258?s=46&t=XVvcZTrIQmLufMEQ9S0F6g