[51553] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Mar 6 19:47:41 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:06:10 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02140b00ad6326a515a9@[199.2.22.124]> from "Jim McCoy" at Mar 6, 96 11:37:28 am
Jim McCoy wrote:
| Two problems:
|
| 1- Chaum did not have the clue to pick up on this when two
| cypherpunks (who shall remain nameless...) pitched this
| and several other ideas to involve ISPs in jump-starting
| ecash almost two years ago, so why would he figure it out
| now?
But now we don't need no stinkin' license. We just use Mark
Twain ecash.
The big problem with this is that net phones can be subject to
delay & drop out, and I don't want to deal with that when I'm talking
on the phone.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
