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They raised substantial capital — $75 million — and assembled a top-tier team, including Dr. Ian Goldberg, an original cypherpunk and cryptography innovator, and Adam Back, renowned for inventing Hashcash. Their ambitions included bringing anonymous electronic cash (ecash), deploying privacy-preserving identities, and enabling untraceable transactions. They even attempted to purchase DigiCash, the pioneer in digital cash, planning to release anonymous ecash that would shift the internet away from surveillance capitalism.