From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:29:05 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What backs up digital money?
Message-ID: <199603280558.VAA00137@netcom9.netcom.com>
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At  6:39 PM 3/27/96 -0800, Mike Duvos wrote:
>Real electronic currency could be invented, but would have to
>live its life within a population of tamper-proof smart cards
>communicating with each other through secure protocols.  Whether
>anyone will bother to implement such a system remains to be seen.

Sounds like the Mondex system, so I guess someone already has.  I think the
url is www.mondex.com, but I could be wrong.

Bill


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