e-cash
Americannoun
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money that is exchanged electronically over computer or telecommunications networks.
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any of various systems of payment for purchases made on the internet.
Etymology
Origin of e-cash
First recorded in 1990–95; e- 2 ( def. ) + cash 1
Example Sentences
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The Treasury would initiate the pilot within 90 days of the bill’s passage and deploy e-cash to the public within four years.
From The Verge • Mar. 28, 2022
The bill specifies that e-cash is distinct from CBDCs and wouldn’t supplant a potential Federal Reserve program.
From The Verge • Mar. 28, 2022
Many sites are now harbouring code that secretly uses a visitors' computer to mine the valuable e-cash coins.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2017
Bankers say they always get the same three questions about this emerging e-cash world: Are we still going to have pennies?
From Time Magazine Archive
Internet banking, Internet gambling, day trading, foreign exchange cyber transactions, e-cash, e-commerce, fictitious invoicing of the launderer's genuine credit cards - hold the promise of the future.
From Crime and Corruption by Vaknin, Samuel
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