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Ecash now has specific meaning and context. There are currently two ecash implementations, Cashu and Fedimint. They allows users to obtain 1:1 bitcoin for privacy (via blinded signatures) preserving ecash notes.

The origins stem from David Chaum.

Ecash is a privacy and scaling solution for bitcoin.

There are many more than these two.

First federated ecash mint was scrit, way before fedi ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scritcash/scrit-whitepaper/master/scrit-whitepaper.pdf ). There's ecash on eth called ZeroWei... Many mixing solutions are based on conversion to ecash notes, either temporary (Wasabi) or more long term (Tornado).

So I would say the meaning expanded, not became more specific.