There are currently two notes who take the cake for the most PoW with 17 bits of leading zeros. Can anybody top that?

Since some time now we have protocol specifications for authentication that can "gate" a Mint to a set of registered (and maybe KYC'd) users with OAuth 2.0. Users receive an OAuth JWT token on registration that they can use to mint BATs (blind authentication tokens). The latter are just ecash, but for requesting access to the Mint API. So even if the users are KYCd, their privacy can be preserved amongst all of the registered users (Mint doesn't who amongst the registered users is using the service). This is Cashu's way of providing tools to the Mint runners for meeting the regulators at a middle ground, and the most we can do. Any requirement beyond this is tyranny that must be fought in the "shadows" like you said.

GitHub

nuts/21.md at main · cashubtc/nuts

Cashu protocol specifications https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/ - cashubtc/nuts

GitHub

nuts/22.md at main · cashubtc/nuts

Cashu protocol specifications https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/ - cashubtc/nuts

Lightning has better UX than credit cards. Still can't believe we can use magic internet money to pay real things.

Assume everybody you don't personally know is CIA.

Hypothetical diagram of how ecash issuance and redemption would work if cashu used anonymous credentials (KVAC).

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Boltz swap is blocking coinjoined outputs.