I have no clue how these cashu wallets work, it seems you need the cashu token to restore the sats, so what’s the use of seed phrase anyway ?
AI says:
“Cashu ecash is bearer-style. If you do not have the proofs (notes) anymore, the mint does not maintain an account balance for you. Seed-based recovery only works if the wallet can deterministically regenerate and re-discover the relevant proofs with the mint. If the wallet fails to do that (bug/version mismatch) and your backup file is unusable, the funds may be effectively gone.”
But also this:
Minibits is explicitly designed to support recovery in two ways:
• Recover ecash using the 12-word mnemonic phrase (seed-based recovery).
• Recover by importing a wallet backup export.
Newer Minibits versions moved recovery into wallet settings, and there is a meaningful difference between “recover balance” vs “recover wallet address only”. If you picked the wrong one, you can end up with an address restored but not your ecash.
lkraider
npub18c…s353s
2026-01-10 15:10:11 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…vtza
Author Public Key
npub18c8hgn254nhgutrlag9793x0n8qgnf864qll0nxr6rvlrdv6x33ses353sPublished at
2026-01-10 15:10:11 UTCEvent JSON
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