Description
TL;DR: A pre-Bitcoin guide to electronic cash built from public-key cryptography, blind-signature ideas, double-spending controls, and competing models of traceability.
About This Document
Lauren Law, Susan Sabett, and Jerry Solinas introduce electronic payment goals, then walk through a simplified anonymous-cash protocol. The essay covers withdrawal, spending, deposit, blind signatures, offline cash, multiple spending, wallet observers, and methods that restore identity under specified conditions. Published in the American University Law Review, it joins technical explanation with policy questions about privacy and law enforcement.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
This is part of the digital-cash lineage that makes Bitcoin easier to place historically. It shows how earlier systems tried to preserve cash-like privacy while relying on issuers and special double-spending controls. Bitcoin chose a public ledger and decentralized consensus instead. The authors wrote as agency employees but state that the views are not necessarily official policy; the essay is historical, not legal advice.
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Document Details
- Title: How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash
- Author / organization: Lauren Law, Susan Sabett, and Jerry Solinas
- Year: 1997
- Language: English
- Document type: Law-review cryptography essay
- Pages: 32
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