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Virtual Cash

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Tue May 3 13:29:00 1994

Date: Tue, 3 May 94 10:20:37 -0700
From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: "Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi"'s message of Tue, 3 May 94 7:29:41 MDT <9405031329.AA44821@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca>

>> Denominate digital money in dollars in a demand deposit account in a
>> US bank.

>Exactly, digital money must be fungible, with some other unit of
>value.  But limiting it to USD, is not the way to go.

Any pre-existing national currency will do.  My point was abbreviated
for clarity.

Eric

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