3. The user can spend digital money at any shop accepting e-cash,
without having to open an account these or having to transmit
credit card number
As soon as,
customer want to make a payment,
software collects the necessary amount from the stored tokens.
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Using the digital currency
4. Problem in bilateral transaction
Equivalent to bouncing a check
Possible as it is very easy to make copies of the e-cash
If anonymity (for freedom of usage is relaxed, double spending
problem can be avoided
Here, a consumer is issued a bank note on his/her unique license.
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Double spending::-
5. When money is transferred it is transferred to that other
person’s license
Bit of information added to the note based on bank’s
serial number and old owner’s license
If double spending is now tried, cheater can be
immediately caught
But, bank can tell precisely the buying habits
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Payer Payee
Bank
Digital
Currency
Server
Database of spent “notes”
Issue cash
Check for double
spending
Transfer digital cash
8. To uncover double spending
Bank must check notes with database of spent notes.
Like unique serial numbers is paper notes, some form of
registration should be there to uniquely identify all notes
issued globally.
But for most systems, which handle high volumes of micro
payments, this method will be too expensive.
Also, banks have to carry added overhead because of
the content checking and auditing logs.
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9. Change problem
E-cash has its to carry to be easily divided into smaller
amount
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10. To deal with:
Bank can issue users with enough separate electronic coins
of various denominations
Payees returns extra change
It would be cumbersome in communication and storage
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