[79267] in Cypherpunks
Re: Chaum steps down as CEO of Digicash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Apr 29 16:32:06 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:40:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, e$@thumper.vmeng.com
In-Reply-To: <v03020919af8b9e12df33@[139.167.130.246]>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> At 1:53 pm -0400 on 4/28/97, Hal Finney wrote:
>
> > Chaum's orientation towards privacy has not been well accepted by the
> > conservative banking community (a similar point was made by Peter Swire
> > in his article about payments and anonymity).
Having worked for DigiCash for more than one year before giving up on them
due to persistent billing problems, I can assure you that the privacy
features of Ecash have *nothing* to do with the failure of Ecash in the
marketplace.
The blame for the failure of Ecash rests squarely and exclusively with
DigiCash's management.
--Lucky
