From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:08:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Digital Cash Escrow
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At 10:14 PM 4/10/96, Bill Stewart wrote:

>Of course, if you happen to become dead while you're storing it,
>the paper cash is far more useful to your heirs, so I assume we'll have
>a government-sponsored cash-escrow system announced soon to protect
>the government's interest in collection of inheritance taxes...

Don't give them ideas, Bill! They are known to monitor our list for
insights into what to regulate next, and I can see the 15-watt lightbulbs
going on over their heads as they ponder the wonderful opportunities
presented by "digital cash escrow."

--Tim May


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