[108357] in Cypherpunks
Re: H-WEB: N Chomsky on Hayek & 'inevitable' Dictatorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Duvos)
Sat Feb 13 15:42:09 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 12:07:53 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: mpd@cyberspace.org (Mike Duvos)
Reply-To: mpd@cyberspace.org (Mike Duvos)
Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> writes:
> I think that a pilot project is in order. Doubly anonymous
> e-cash system backed by a fictitiuos "bank" with volunteer
> participants (everybody gets 1000 talirs to start with; use it to
> pay for postings on cpunks; earn through anon donations; use your
> imagination.)
> Is there any available code that can be a good starting point ?
We did that a number of years ago on the list. It was called
"Magic Money." Pr0duct Cypher adapted the insides of PGP into a
library named PGPTools, and wrote the code to implement Chaumian
Ecash with blind signatures. I ran a little bank on Netcom,
which we kept up until interest waned. Problem was, there wasn't
really anything tremendously useful that could be purchased with
"Tacky Tokens," but it at least let people play with the basic
concepts involved.
BTW, I've parked on Grex until I get my Eskimo problems sorted
out and find another ISP with a local presence. The email
address in the .sig should now work. r00t@eskimo.com is toast.
--
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mpd@cyberspace.org $ via Finger $
{Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoners Jim Bell and Toto}
