Fedimint, on the other hand, does not have a blockchain.
I believe that is misleading. Even the HoneyBadger paper calls it a blockchain.
Instead, users receive so-called e-cash tokens, small pieces of data that represent the funds deposited into the federation’s multisig wallet.
The Treasury would love that so much.
The upside of this technology is that it provides more privacy by default and is more scalable since there is no blockchain to verify.
Again, yes there is a blockchain but the validators keep it to themselves. So it's not more scalable, in fact the current limit is 15 validators I believe.
An individual fedimint isn't intended to be hugely scalable, it's intended to be used by a community. What is scalable is that we could have a lot of interoperable fedimints via special invoices that could resolve to a fedi, lightning, or on-chain payment between fedimints.
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Sure, but that's scalability through lots of sidechains. I think that "scalability because there's no blockchain" is not as clear.
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