Disclaimer

Read this before you put money in a mint. Last updated 20 August 2026.

Mints are custodial

When you mint ecash, you hand bitcoin to the mint operator and get tokens back. Those tokens are a claim on that operator. They are not bitcoin you hold, and the operator is the one who decides whether to honour them.

That means every mint carries the same risks: the operator can vanish, can be compelled to stop, can lose the funds through a bug or a hack, or can simply turn the server off. There is no deposit insurance, no chargeback, no support line and no legal recourse worth counting on. This is true of the highest rated mint on this site.

Cashu is designed for small amounts moving quickly. Use it that way: hold what you are about to spend, not your savings, and spread across mints rather than parking everything in one.

Reviews are opinions, not verified claims

Every review here was written by someone on Nostr and signed with their key. Signed means we can tell you which key wrote it. It does not mean the review is true, that the author used the mint, or that the author is not the operator, a competitor, or one person with ten keys.

We do not verify reviewers, and we do not edit or remove reviews we disagree with. Read a few, look at what they actually say, and weigh a mint with three reviews differently from one with three hundred.

Online means reachable, not trustworthy

We check every mint regularly and show whether it answered. That is all a green status means: the server responded. It says nothing about whether the operator is solvent, honest, or still intends to honour your tokens tomorrow.

A mint can be online right up to the moment it is not. Uptime history, supported NUTs and software version tell you something about how a mint is run, but none of them are a promise about your money.

How ranking works, and what it does not mean

Mints are ordered by an algorithm over public review data: rating, number of reviews and recent activity, with online mints ahead of offline ones by default. The details are in the open source code.

Nobody pays for placement. There is no sponsored slot, no promoted listing and no arrangement with any mint on this site. A high rank means the algorithm liked the public data, and nothing more. It is not a recommendation and it is not a safety rating.

This is not financial advice

Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. We do not know your situation and we are not advising you. Using a mint, and choosing which one, is your decision.

Do your own research

• Look up the operator. A mint run by someone with a public reputation to lose is a different proposition from an anonymous URL.
• Read the mint's own terms and its MOTD. A mint that calls itself a test or a beta means it.
• Start small. Mint a little, spend it, melt it back out, and see what happens before you trust it with more.
• Watch the limits. A low maximum is often a sign of a careful operator, and a high one is not a sign of a safe one.
• Keep your tokens backed up, and remember that a token is a bearer asset: whoever holds it can spend it.

About the site itself

Data here can be wrong or out of date. Mints are probed on a schedule, relays sometimes fail to answer, and a page you are reading was built at some point in the past. The site is provided as it is, with no warranty. See the terms of use.