[79537] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bypassing the Digicash Patents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon May 5 10:19:49 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007801af92b4de05b2@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:14:32 -0700
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 3:02 PM -0700 5/4/97, Tim May wrote:
>(And such cash systems are almost certainly cheaper for merchants for other
>types of transactions. Getting the money immediately has to be at least as
>cheap as having checks, credit cards, tabs, etc. Obviously.)
An exception may be for businesses like all-night gas stations, where
robbery is a significant cost of doing business.
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