From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: adamfast@seanet.com (Adam Feuer)
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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 23:08:04 PST
To: adamfast@seanet.com (Adam Feuer)
Subject: Re: Why emoney? Why not a web of debt?
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adamfast@seanet.com wrote:
| well, one way of doing it is LETS, the Local Exchange Trading System-- a
| non-computerized way of exchanging value in a community. it doesn't
| exactly use money. there are thousands of LETS's worldwide, i've never
LETS seem to have little use for anonymity or privacy. They
may also involve substantial risks of inflation/devaluation; I'm
discussing this with Michael Linton on www-buyinfo.
(www-buyinfo-request@ALLEGRA.ATT.COM)
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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