From: Jon Cooper <jcooper@virtu.sar.usf.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 95 11:59:19 PST
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: More FUD from First Virtual
In-Reply-To: <m0tO6o4-00091AC@pacifier.com>
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> >I *am* skeptical about the extent to which anonymous cash *can* succeed,
> 
> What can stop it?  What should stop it?

   The US government can stop it.  It is irrelevant what *should* stop 
it, but it's extremely useful to note that the US government's political 
climate of paranoia and FUD in general will certainly not allow truly 
anonymous cash systems inside of our country in the forseeable future.

- -jon

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