1994-04-05 - nsa digital cash?

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 3928562f0210729670226d29c1cd2e87d4ca11f94db82263973a683bb8a1257b
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UTC Datetime: 1994-04-05 19:49:32 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 12:49:32 PDT

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 12:49:32 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: nsa digital cash?
In-Reply-To: <199404051837.LAA20193@netcom9.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9404051937.AA10400@ah.com>
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>i doubt it will be long before there
>are some official government agencies developing the official u.s.
>digital cash system. 

This statement betrays an enormous ignorance at the scale of Federal
involvement in retail transaction systems.  The Fed operates Fedwire,
for moving federal funds around, and also does check clearing at the
national level.  All the retail level transaction systems are in
private hands, be they ATM networks and consortia or the credit card
companies.

Eric

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• 1994-04-05 (Tue, 5 Apr 94 11:36:39 PDT) - nsa digital cash? - tmp@netcom.com
  • 1994-04-05 (Tue, 5 Apr 94 12:49:32 PDT) - nsa digital cash? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
    • 1994-04-06 (Wed, 6 Apr 94 08:40:42 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - tmp@netcom.com
      • 1994-04-06 (Wed, 6 Apr 94 14:16:37 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
        • 1994-04-07 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 09:33:47 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - tmp@netcom.com
          • 1994-04-07 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 12:38:25 PDT) - nsa digital cash? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
          • 1994-04-07 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 12:41:18 PDT) - nsa digital cash? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
            • 1994-04-07 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:14:08 PDT) - Dave Emory lecture Saturday, Bay Area - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
          • 1994-04-07 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 14:55:59 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
            • 1994-04-08 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 17:37:48 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - tmp@netcom.com
              • 1994-04-08 (Thu, 7 Apr 94 20:18:15 PDT) - Re: nsa digital cash? - Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>