[43853] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash protocol: Part 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Thu Nov 23 13:49:10 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: iagoldbe@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 23 Nov 1995 13:46:02 -0500
In article <199511231755.JAA02492@netcom15.netcom.com>,
Mark Twain Ecash Support <support@marktwain.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be legal to write shop software which sent such a
>> payment request, took the resulting coins, and deposited them in the bank
>> (if we could figure out all the protocols necessary).
>
>IANAL. What would you hope to gain from creating such a piece of
>software?
>
A piece of ecash software which does not violate Chaumian patents, does
something useful, and for which we have _source_...
- Ian "Speaking of which..."
