1992-12-10 - crypto credits

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From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1992-12-10 20:26:15 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 12:26:15 PST

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From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 12:26:15 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: crypto credits
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>need for a shorter term than "digital cash" for this cryptographic
>money.  He suggested "cryps".  I thought of "emoney" or "ecash" by
>analogy to "email".  Here's another one: "crydets", based on
>"credits".  Or maybe we should call them "Chaums"....

How about "crypto credits" or "quatloos?"

(And you're right about David Chaum, Dining Cryptographers and Digi Cash.)

-fnerd
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fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)






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