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 Ecash is cool if you respect the risks, but just because you don't care about small amounts (others might care + small amounts for you might be a lot for someone else in the world + others could have more than small amounts on it + many small amounts still equals a lot of Bitcoin to temp the mint) doesn't remove the potential for mints to fractionally reserve. 

All that requires is printing/lending out more ecash than Bitcoin that is backing it.