[44255] in Cypherpunks
Re: e-cash gambling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca)
Thu Nov 30 11:47:16 1995
From: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:45:23 -0500 (EST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511301536.QAA25670@utopia.hacktic.nl>
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Anonymous wrote:
> I would like to see e-cash gambling on US Presidential elections/primaries
> [as is currently done in London & Moscow]. There was an interesting W$J
> article that pointed out how the odds in these gambling houses track the
> results of elections more accurately (from thousands of miles away) than
> Gallup & Roper ever have, (and without calling me at suppertime)<g>. The
Idea Futures. (This has already been mentioned in this thread)
There is an outfit calling itself Ideosphere that is planning a
commercial version of an Idea Futures. It is certainly fairer than online
roulette. You might want to try the game out yourself. Dr. Froomkin has a
link to it on his homepage (I think).
> It would accomplish the cypherpunk goals of setting important information
> free through use of our technology, it would encourage gamblers to learn
> about strong crypto, and it would use crypto for something besides child
> porn or drugs, which will be good PR for us. There will, of course, be
Incidentally there are a lot of crypto related claims being played (which
is natural considering the number of cpunks in the game).
