15 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 20 Dec 2022 \ on: I'm Calle, a Physicist and Programmer who fell in love with Lightning - AMA bitcoin
what caused chaumian ecash ideas on bitcoin to come back into style recently?
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280 sats \ 1 reply \ @calle OP 20 Dec 2022
My take would be that the internet needed a native currency for the idea to truly flourish. Imagine trying to build a privacy-preserving fiat banking system today. Never gonna happen.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 20 Dec 2022
makes sense. it seems like ecash enthusiasm really just picked up in the last year or two (or maybe i wasn’t paying attention).
why haven’t we seen many other ecash projects in the last decade?
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