From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 11:02:35 PDT
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: Mosaic to support digital money in September
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I wrote:
> > Although the
> > server does not know which of its clients has been
> > transacting with which, it does know the thing that the
> > government is most interested in knowing - how much the
> > client got, and how much he spent.

Hal writes
> The digital cash systems we have been experimenting with do not know
> "how much the client got, and how much he spent."  There is nothing stopping


I stand corrected.


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