[12895] in Cypherpunks
Re: the value of money
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L Womack)
Mon May 2 21:00:30 1994
From: dwomack@runner.jpl.utsa.edu (David L Womack)
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 19:54:12 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405022238.SAA07896@miles.bwh.harvard.edu> from "Adam Shostack" at May 2, 94 06:38:00 pm
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> You wrote:
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> | Blanc Weber asks about the size of the money supply. Uni points out that
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> | It appears that the Magic Money/Tacky Token experiment is not succeeding
> | in producing an informal digital currency. People have offered services
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> I think that this problem might well go back to the ease of
> use problem. I spend a lot of my time reading bad documentation. I
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> Adam
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> --
BRAVO! Magic Money is a grand idea, but I've never been able to make it work;
for me, at least, it was not "user friendly"; and I like to think I'm
not totally clueless, since it looks as if I'll pass Assembly Language
this semester ;-). Can't a derivation of MM at least as easy to use
as PGP and/or UNIX be developed? And, if we REALLY want it to take off,
how about something that is menu based that a typical commercial online
user could learn to use at a minimal level in a few minutes? No, I don't
have the skills to take on such a project...but if widespread use is the
goal, and if there are still fewer than 4000 hard-corps PGP users with
their keys on a keyserver, then it appears that someone needs to come up
with a program no more complex than PGP...preferably much simpler.
Regards,
Dave
