DigiCash
DigiCash Inc. was a pioneering electronic currency corporation founded by David Chaum in 1990. DigiCash transactions were unique in that they were anonymous due to a number of cryptographic protocols developed by its founder. DigiCash declared bankruptcy in 1998, and subsequently sold its assets to Ecash, another digital currency company, which was acquired by InfoSpace on Feb. 19, 2002.
Further reading
- Presenting Digital Cash, p. 99-106, 226-229; Seth Godin (ISBN 1-57521-062-2)
It is an electronic payment system.This is based on digital tokens called digital coins.
Related
External links
- E-Money (That's What I Want), Wired, Issue 2.12, December 1994
- Boom then Bust: How Electronic Cash Faltered
- How DigiCash Blew Everything translated by Dutch natives and edited by Ian Grigg from original article Hoe DigiCash alles verknalde in Dutch magazine NEXT!, accessed on Apr 27, 1999
- opencoin is an open source software which realizes anonymous digital cash. It is based on blind signatures and is heavily influenced by DigiCash.
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