A look at free banking in the 19th century and how it relates to today. We can build it with Cashu. And it might have some nice properties.
Admittedly a bit too long, but I think this perspective is interesting and is not much known. If it's too long for you to read, there's also a text to speech audio version that supports value4value, links at the beginning of the article.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/03/18/cashu-bitcoin-freebanking/
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