For the two last decades, people have tried to provide practical electronic cash schemes, with more or less success. Indeed, the most secure ones generally suffer from inefficiency...
Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol in which a mint can produce a quantum state, no one else can copy the state, and anyone (with a quantum computer) can verify that the sta...
Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Avinatan Hassidim, And...
An electronic cash (e-cash) scheme lets a user withdraw money from a bank and then spend it anonymously. E-cash can be used only if it can be securely and fairly exchanged for ele...
This paper proposes a resilient, alternative monetary system on the Internet called i-WAT, based on WAT System[1] which uses a form of promissory note as the medium of exchanging g...
Based on ethnographically-inspired research in Japan, we report on people's experiences using digital money payment systems that use Sony's FeliCa near-field communicati...