From: Ryan Lackey <ryan@netaxs.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:31:37 +0800
To: loki@obscura.com (Lance Cottrell)
Subject: Re: E-cash and Interest
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Message-ID: <199601120620.BAA14910@unix5.netaxs.com>
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In one of many possible worlds, Lance Cottrell did say:
 
> Where do people keep getting this number. I have an account, my initial
> deposit was $36 ($11 for startup and $25 to play with).

It's the amount required to earn interest on a World Currency Access account.
I was incorrect in assuming it was the minimum to start an account...it's 
just the minimum _I_ would have it in, because I do not like savings 
accounts which don't draw interest unless they're held in gold, offshore, 
or both.

-- 
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"Calmly and impersonally, she, who would have hesitated to fire at an 
 animal, pulled the trigger and fired straight at the heart of a man 
 who had wanted to exist without the responsibility of consciousness."
                                       -- Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_.