DigiCash
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| − | '''DigiCash''' is one of the early attempts at digital currency. Like the current-day digital currencies of the [[Bitcoin]] vein, it made use of [[Encryption|cryptographic protocols]] to anonymize transactions, but unlike those (and like most early e-currencies) it was based around a central institution, and hence vulnerable to going away if that institution went belly-up, as in fact happened when they went bankrupt in 1998. The remnants of it were acquired by [[ecash]]. | + | '''DigiCash''' is one of the early attempts at digital currency. Like the current-day digital currencies of the [[Bitcoin]] vein, it made use of [[Encryption|cryptographic protocols]] to anonymize transactions, but unlike those (and like most early e-currencies) it was based around a central institution, and hence vulnerable to going away if that institution went belly-up, as in fact happened when they went bankrupt in 1998. The remnants of it were acquired by a different company which adopted the [[ecash]] name which was used by DigiCash to name its underlying technology. |
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [[Wikipedia:DigiCash|Wikipedia article]] | * [[Wikipedia:DigiCash|Wikipedia article]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:33, 20 April 2014
DigiCash is one of the early attempts at digital currency. Like the current-day digital currencies of the Bitcoin vein, it made use of cryptographic protocols to anonymize transactions, but unlike those (and like most early e-currencies) it was based around a central institution, and hence vulnerable to going away if that institution went belly-up, as in fact happened when they went bankrupt in 1998. The remnants of it were acquired by a different company which adopted the ecash name which was used by DigiCash to name its underlying technology.
