DigiCash

DigiCash Inc.
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989)
FounderDavid Chaum
Defunct1998 (1998)

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] DigiCash declared bankruptcy in 1998 and subsequently sold[2] its assets to eCash Technologies, another digital currency company, which was acquired by InfoSpace on February 19, 2002.[3]

  1. ^ Chaum, David (1983). "Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" (PDF). Advances in Cryptology. Vol. 82. pp. 199–203. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-0602-4_18. ISBN 978-1-4757-0604-8.
  2. ^ Pitta, Julie (1999/11/01). Requiem for a Bright Idea - Forbes
  3. ^ "In Brief: InfoSpace Buys eCash Technologies". American Banker. 2002-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-18.