Ecash for Other Stuff by Max Hillebrand

About this episode

Max Hillebrand discusses e-cash at the first e-cash conference, 40 years after the technology's invention. E-cash functions as a warehouse receipt: users deposit assets (gold, fiat, Bitcoin) and receive anonymous, transferable electronic signatures as access rights. Kashu and Fedman exemplify this model. The result is fast, cheap, untraceable digital payments—the use case that has dominated implementation since the beginning.