Anonymous ecash server
> I suggest you check the archives for the current state of the anarcho
> cryptographic union. Last time I checked e-gold had a way of spending
> e-gold electronically through smart cellphones that could clear through
> any VISA/MC terminal. That would be cool. Now to make it anonymous.
So maybe the thing to do is the following:
Open an e-gold account, anonymously (or under a fake name, they sort of
allow this). This will be the mint account.
Let people put funds into the system by getting them into e-gold then
transferring into the mint.
Run an anonymous ecash server which does withdrawals and deposits into
the mint account, from behind Freedom.net.
The only problem is that Freedom does not yet support anonymous servers.
What we need is a way of supporting this.
One idea is to use IRC. The ecash server connects to an IRC server via
Freedom, and runs as a bot. Client software would then also use IRC
to extract and deposit coins.
You'd probably need to customize the IRC client in order to know how to
do the blinding and such.
Alternatively, use Ben Laurie's Lucre package (no relation to the earlier
"dash-lucre" which was a workalike for the DigiCash client). This uses a
blinding system devised by David Wagner which is thought to be unpatented.
Who would be willing to give real money to an anonymous ecash server?
How much would you be willing to entrust? And are you willing to accept
the consequences if you forget the password that unlocks your coin file?
