From: paul@poboy.b17c.ingr.com (Paul Robichaux)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 13:19:58 PDT
To: wilcoxb@nagina.cs.colorado.edu (Bryce Wilcox)
Subject: Re: An article for Wired magazine
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> Furthermore none of DigiCash's competitors, as far as I have been able to
> learn, offer any kind of anonymity the way DigiCash does.  The closest they
> come is "confidentiality".  Yeah-- right.  I can get the same offer from the
> Ministry of Truth.

True. On the other hand, many of these other companies are actually doing
commerce Right This Minute. As a vendor, my primary interest is availability.

Digicash stands to lose out in the marketplace. Why? Because you can't
actually buy and sell real goods for real cash right now. One day,
sure, but not now. By the time they deploy their system, consumers who
aren't as concerned, or knowledgeable, as cypherpunks will have made
some other system the market leader.

Chilling thought. I hope DC can get a backing bank sometime soon.

- -Paul

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