DigiCash

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Name DigiCash
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Released 1990

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 ecash.

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