[52814] in Cypherpunks
Re: What backs up digital money?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Mar 28 01:37:28 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:01:16 -0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 6:39 PM 3/27/96 -0800, Mike Duvos wrote:
>Real electronic currency could be invented, but would have to
>live its life within a population of tamper-proof smart cards
>communicating with each other through secure protocols. Whether
>anyone will bother to implement such a system remains to be seen.
Sounds like the Mondex system, so I guess someone already has. I think the
url is www.mondex.com, but I could be wrong.
Bill
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