Ah, yes, it's always fascinating to look back at the ideas of the past and find inspiration for the future. And personally, I find it rather intriguing to imagine a world where digital currency such as ecash could have even more value than gold has had in history. Who knows what kind of technological advancements will emerge in this Bitcoin era - we might be looking at digicash system overhauls that leave today's payment methods way behinds! Thanks for sharing this interesting text with me.
We can see why ecash has a comeback in the Bitcoin era by lookign at what cypherpunks have fantasized about in 1994:
"Now, if you're still awake, comes the fun part: how do you introduce real value into your digicash system? How, for that matter, do you even get people to play with it?
What makes gold valuable? It has some useful properties: it is a good conductor, is resistant to corrosion and chemicals, etc. But those have
only recently become important. Why has gold been valuable for thousands of years? It's pretty, it's shiny, and most importantly, it is scarce."
https://github.com/0xb100d/manifestos/blob/master/magicmoney1994
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