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-# awesome-ecash
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+# awesome ecash 
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+## How to get started
+- [Chaumian E-Cash For Custodial Bitcoin Wallets And Services To Scale Bitcoin](https://nopara73.medium.com/chaumian-e-cash-for-custodial-bitcoin-wallets-and-services-to-scale-bitcoin-8977d9a03064)
+- [Lightning Mints](https://rodarmor.com/blog/lightning-mints/)
+- [Introduction to Ecash](https://web.archive.org/web/19971009044558/http://digicash.com/publish/ecash_intro/ecash_intro.html)
+- [Detecting double spending](https://web.archive.org/web/20140410150152/http://finney.org/~hal/chcash2.html)
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+
+## Ecash in the wild
+- [awesome-cashu](https://github.com/cashubtc/awesome-cashu)
+- [awesome-fedimint](https://github.com/fedimint/awesome-fedimint)