1994-08-07 - e$: Cypherpunks Sell Concepts
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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-07 17:59:47 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 7 Aug 94 10:59:47 PDT
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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 94 10:59:47 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: e$: Cypherpunks Sell Concepts
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>There are two legal problems that I could see being used against digital
>cash. The first is the civil war era prohibition on banks issuing private
>bank notes.
It seems to me
that one could just as easily treat digicash as securities denominated in
dollars, [etc.]
It didn't occur to me before, but you could also have 'nonbank notes'.
If the issuer isn't a bank, does the regulation still apply?
Eric
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