eCurrency is a digital currency used in the internet. Or it could be called electronic money. As in general, the currency can be used as payment or to receive payment. However, this currency can only be used on the internet only.
First, the payment method used is to use a credit card, but on the basis of security reasons, it is now so many people have switched to using ecurrency for online payments. And as the development is now a lot of ecurrency that are on the internet.
eCurrency example is Paypal, alertpay, e-gold, liberty reserve, webmoney, etc. (there are many more). You can search on google by entering search words ecurrency. ecurrency this is a stand alone, and they also managed by institutions / businesses are different.
Well usually currency also refers to a particular currency, a common and usually is with reference to the dollar (U.S.), but there is also a reference to Gold / gold, if they refer to the gold, they use gold as a backup for all their customer funds . Ecurrency one that uses gold example is e-Gold.
Some eCurrency are widely used in Indonesia is:
1. Paypal: his official website at www.paypal.com
2. WebMoney: official website at www.wmtransfer.com
3. Liberty Reserve: official website at www.libertyreserve.com
4. c-Gold: official website at www.c-gold.com
5. AlertPay: official website at www.alertpay.com
6. PerfectMoney: official website at www.perfectmoney.com
8. And many more (please searching on google)