1995-01-21 - Re: Why emoney? Why not a web of debt?

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From: Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Jack Repenning <jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 17:19:40 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why emoney? Why not a web of debt?
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Recently, someone wrote:

  But electronic computers are good at checking out these kinds of
  chains automatically.

Not that good.  Loss of connectivity, limited bandwidth, and
cumulative table size would all make this impractical very
quickly, I think.







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