From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 95 22:53:26 PDT
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Chaum's cash: backup?
Message-ID: <199510230553.WAA08339@blob.best.net>
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At 10:04 PM 10/22/95 -0700, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>say I download $1000 to my hard drive and it crashes. what to do?
>
>if it was like "real" cash, then it really would be lost.

It is really lost.

Your disk drive contains information the bank *cannot* know.

If you do not know that information either, you cannot prove to
the bank or anyone else that you rightfully possess a legitimate coin.


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