From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 95 07:06:01 PST
To: Mats Bergstrom <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: 1)Age etc CA 2)Swedish Digicash
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At 01:56 PM 12/7/95 +0100, Mats Bergstrom wrote:

>Posten has licensed Digicash and plans to
>open a mint/bank (Posten already is closely connected to a bank)
>dealing in Swedish crowns. (This is not news but things seem to
>be moving right now.) Some (but slight) mention of laundering,
>of course. It's supposed to come about in 'the beginning of next
>year'. I wonder how exchanges crowns/dollars will be managed.

Is there an existing Post Office Bank in Sweden?  If so, can foreigners open
accounts?  The UK's postal bank (Girobank) has become more like a normal
bank and I think foreigners can open accounts.  (The US Postal Savings
System was closed in 1956 or so.)  I'd rather have a Swedish Digicash
account than one in the US.

DCF

"A bank is just a money switch.  Soon we'll all have money switches."