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Re: Anonymous payment scheme

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob MorrisG)
Tue Jan 3 10:58:24 1995

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 07:42:28 -0800
From: bmorris@netcom.com (Bob MorrisG)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: bmorris@netcom.com

HH> So, you may be able to have a form of anonymity from the person you ar
HH> transacting with, but I don't think you can be anonymous from the bank
HH> and from the government.  And personally, I am more concerned about th

With a debit card you can't be anonymous, because your money resides in
the bank.  With digital cash, and the ability to transfer money to
another digital cash card via phone lines, I don't see how they can
successfully trace everything.  They will try, no doubt.


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