From: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 08:53:14 PDT
To: hughes@ah.com
Subject: Re: anonymous settlement
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In message <9408102324.AA25933@ah.com> Eric Hughes writes:
>    >  Also, for anonymous
>    > payment for such overseas services, anonymous transfer in at least one
>    > of the two currencies is necessary.
> 
>    The last point is certainly not true.  If user X communicates with
>    service A (a gateway) in one country to purchase something from
>    service B in another country, X can settle accounts with A anonymously
>    (say in US$) and then A and B can settle accounts with one another
>    (say in sterling) openly.
> 
> May I point out that that in your example that X and A are performing
> an anonymous transfer in dollars, which is one of the two currencies?

You are quite right.  I misread what you wrote, thinking that you meant
that X must pay B anonymously in one of the two currencies.
--
Jim Dixon