Jeroen Ubbink on Nostr: It's great that the UX works for you. The point here (as i understand it) is not a UX ...

It's great that the UX works for you. The point here (as i understand it) is not a UX thing but more a privacy thing. A mint knows nothing of its users. It just receives sats from some lightning address, gives tokens for it, then when they get redeemed it sends those sats to some different lightning address.

Phoenix requires you to fill out some personal data (though i heard you could fake it), but it still centralizes a lot around a single service and could therefore easily be targeted and strongarmed by government agencies to give up all data people provided then with.

There can be many ecash mints, there is only one Phoenix.