Creating and managing private electronic currency
Methods and systems are disclosed for transactions with a private digital currency. The private e-currency may be backed by a financial institution, managed using a blockchain, and only available for transactions with members of a network associated with the financial institution. The members may include mobile wallets, merchants and ATM's. A mobile wallet may register with the network and receive an amount of the private e-currency from the financial institution. The mobile wallet may establish a connection with a payment recipient such as another wallet, an ATM or a merchant, and receive a payee address. The mobile wallet may send a transaction request to the blockchain for payment to the payee address of a payment amount of the private e-currency, so that the payment recipient can, using a blockchain, confirm or deny the transaction request.
1. A method for transacting with a payment recipient using a mobile wallet operating on a computing device, the method comprising:
registering, by the mobile wallet, with a network associated with a financial institution (FI), the network including a number of registered members including the payment recipient and the mobile wallet;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a private e-currency from an FI system associated with the FI, the private e-currency being a digital currency that is managed using a blockchain, guaranteed by the financial institution to be convertible into a government-backed currency and only available for transactions with members of the network, the private e-currency being associated with a private e-currency (PE) address;
establishing, by the mobile wallet, communication with the payment recipient;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a payment recipient address from the payment recipient;
sending, by the mobile wallet, a transaction request for paying the payment recipient, the transaction request including a payment amount of private e-currency, the payment recipient address and a PE address, wherein the payment recipient can, using the blockchain, confirm that the payment amount is stable; and
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a confirmation or a denial of the transaction request from the payment recipient.
2. The method of claim 1 , further including sending, by the mobile wallet to the FI system, payment credentials associated with a financial account for paying for a deposit of the private e-currency.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein receiving the private e-currency from the FI system further includes receiving an address for the private e-currency.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending the transaction request includes sending the transaction request to one or more computing systems for one or more of confirming the transaction request and writing the transaction request to a block in the blockchain.
5. The method of claim 1 , further including displaying an amount of one or more government-backed currencies corresponding to an available amount of the private e-currency.
6. The method of claim 1 , further including determining a location of the computing device and selectively displaying, based on the location, an amount of a government-backed currency corresponding to an available amount of the private e-currency.
7. The method of claim 1 , further including storing, using the mobile wallet, the PE address and a private key associated with the private e-currency.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the payment recipient is an automated transaction machine (ATM);
the method further including receiving, from the ATM, government-backed paper currency in an amount corresponding to the payment amount of the private e-currency.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the payment amount exceeds a purchase price of a product (good or service) by a difference, the method further including receiving, by the mobile wallet, a notification from the payment recipient that the payment recipient issued private e-currency in the amount of the different to the mobile wallet.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the private e-currency is a universal currency capable of being redeemed in multiple different government issued paper currencies.
11. A system for transacting with a payment recipient using a mobile wallet operating on a computing device, the system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one storage device comprising instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, configure to at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
registering, by the mobile wallet, with a network associated with a financial institution (FI), the network including a number of registered members including the payment recipient and the mobile wallet;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a private e-currency from an FI system associated with the FI, the private e-currency being a digital currency that is managed using a blockchain, guaranteed by the financial institution to be convertible into a government-backed currency and only available for transactions with members of the network, the private e-currency being associated with a private e-currency (PE) address;
establishing, by the mobile wallet, communication with the payment recipient;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a payment recipient address from the payment recipient;
sending, by the mobile wallet, a transaction request for paying the payment recipient, the transaction request including a payment amount of private e-currency, the payment recipient address and a PE address, wherein the payment recipient can, using the blockchain, confirm that the payment amount is stable; and
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a confirmation or a denial of the transaction request from the payment recipient.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein sending the transaction request includes sending the transaction request to one or more computing systems for one or more of confirming the transaction request and writing the transaction request to a block in the blockchain.
13. The system of claim 11 , further including determining a location of the computing device and selectively displaying, based on the location, an amount of a government-backed currency corresponding to an available amount of the private e-currency.
14. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by a processor unit, cause the processor unit to execute operations for transacting with a payment recipient using a mobile wallet operating on a computing device, the operations comprising:
registering, by a mobile wallet, with a network associated with a financial institution (FI), the network including a number of registered members including the payment recipient and the mobile wallet;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a private e-currency from an FI system associated with the FI, the private e-currency being a digital currency that is managed using a blockchain, guaranteed by the financial institution to be convertible into a government-backed currency and only available for transactions with members of the network, the private e-currency being associated with a private e-currency (PE) address;
establishing, by the mobile wallet, communication with the payment recipient;
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a payment recipient address from the payment recipient;
sending, by the mobile wallet, a transaction request for paying the payment recipient, the transaction request including a payment amount of private e-currency, the payment recipient address and a PE address, wherein the payment recipient can, using the blockchain, confirm that the payment amount is stable; and
receiving, by the mobile wallet, a confirmation or a denial of the transaction request from the payment recipient.