<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>calle wrote</title><author_name>calle (npub12r…485vg)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html># How ecash is minted&#xA;&#xA;To use Cashu, a user Alice first needs to acquire ecash tokens. For that, Alice&#39;s wallet has to do two things: First, Alice asks the mint for a Lightning invoice and pays it using any other Bitcoin Lightning wallet. Second, when the invoice is paid, Alice generates a secret x and blinds it (i.e. encrypts it) and sends it to the mint. The mint then signs this blinded secret which we call a blind signature C&#39;. The mint then sends the blind signature back to Alice and her wallet unblinds (i.e. decrypts) it to obtain a signature C on the secret x which the mint has both never seen. The tuple (x, C) is an ecash token and can be sent around to other users as a form of untraceable money.&#xA;&#xA;[extracted from the Cashu PoL scheme document]</html></oembed>