Hear me out: a nostr relay that asks for a micro payment with Cashu ecash (1-10 sats?) for each note a user wants to send.
I see several benefits over normal Lightning payments:
- better privacy through ecash
- no fees: 1-10 sat payments easily possible
- non-interactive: no invoice creation and back and forth, ecash could be directly attached to a nostr note
- speed: Lightning payments can get stuck, bad for UX
- efficiency: a relay could collect ecash and "cash out" onto their own non-custodial Lightning wallet once a day / every hour
Benefits of Lightning:
- can be completely non-custodial
Thoughts? If anyone is interested in exploring this, I'd be up for a brain storm!
calle 👁️⚡👁️
npub12r…485vg
2023-02-14 10:39:58
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npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vgPublished at
2023-02-14 10:39:58Event JSON
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