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Chaum started the company DigiCash in 1989 with "ecash" as its trademark. He raised $10 million from David Marquardt and by 1997 Nicholas Negroponte was its chairman. [4] Yet, in the United States, only one bank — the Mark Twain bank in Saint Louis, MO — implemented ecash, testing it as micropayment system; [5] Similar to credit cards, the system was free to purchasers, while merchants ...
DigiCash Inc. was an electronic money corporation founded by David Chaum in 1989. DigiCash transactions were unique in that they were anonymous due to a number of cryptographic protocols developed by its founder. [1]
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Facebook announces that it is acquiring the Sequoia Capital-backed multi-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp for US$16 billion ($4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares) plus an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp's founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing.
In cryptography e-cash is quasi synonymous with anonymous e-cash which looks a lot like what you are suggesting. I will try to rewrite the entry to provide more information about anonymous e-cash, and will remove PayPal, as it is an electronic payment solution that has not too much to do with e-cash as such.
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France or Switzerland.
La Libre Belgique (French pronunciation: [la libʁ bɛlʒik]; lit. ' The Free Belgium ' ), currently sold under the name La Libre , is a quality French-language Belgian daily newspaper . Together with Le Soir , it is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in both Brussels and Wallonia .