[79314] in Cypherpunks
Re: This is not "cash" if the government demands a report...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Wed Apr 30 21:36:42 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:51:48 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 01:01:59PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> At 11:26 AM -0800 4/29/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> >I was refering to your purchase of the 'vette -- presuming the dealer
> >followed the law, the sale would be reported, and the amount, and
> >hence the transaction is not anonymous, even though you paid cash...
>
> Ah, Kent, so you are citing the government's intervention in cash
> transactions (part of the War on Some Drugs, of course) as evidence that
> cash has flaws. Well, I wouldn't call this cash, not if the government
> demands that True Names be taken down and reported.
OK. What would you call it, then? Perhaps you could think of another
catchy, short name for those greenish bits of paper and circular metal
objects I have in my pocket that I use to pay for lunch?
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
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