[87268] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailers and ecash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat Sep 27 12:30:28 1997
In-Reply-To: <d9ad723431a59140b039a71c9cecc923@anon.efga.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 08:01:09 -0700
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
At 3:18 AM -0400 9/27/97, Anonymous wrote:
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>Just out of a curiousity, why is it that no remailers accept ecash?
>(This is not a jibe at remailer operators or authors of remailer
>software. I am really curious if this is a "didn't get to it yet"
>sort of thing, or if there's something hard about it.)
One item which has been missing is an accessible API. (The Digicash
merchant software is, I believe, designed for online use only.) This need
is about to be fulfilled. Another item is a service to sell/redeem ecash
w/o need of a bank account and supporting client software. This too is
about to become available.
--Steve
