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DigiCash tries to commercialise electronic money

David Chaum founded DigiCash in Amsterdam to turn blind-signature research into a working payment product.

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The company's ecash system ran pilots with several banks and briefly looked like the default form electronic money would take. It filed for bankruptcy in 1998, having never reached the merchant and consumer scale it needed.