Had the previous regime understood or even knew about eCash, I’ve no doubt there would have been investigations and prosecutions. The incentives were obvious - shutting down financial innovators sharing their vision through open source software was encouraged and rewarded.
Today, for the time being, the government doesn’t seem inclined to prosecute developers. The new regime seems to cast a benign eye toward financial innovators and people deploying open source software for the world to use.
This is a welcome change, and as #Bitcoin becomes stickier in the global financial system, there is an opportunity to move the Overton Window on payment tech, and perhaps even let loose a renaissance in the only recently lost appreciation of the value peer to peer cash transactions.
Today Bitcoin is pushing a wide path through the resistance of the legacy financial and regulatory system. Behind it, a golden opportunity for developers and innovators to draft off this disruption. I think eCash is a prime candidate - maybe even the candidate we all need - to slip into that position.