1996-03-10 - Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Message Hash: d85984c4dc45523b78327bb84130a8306f44a6b06c3943e8572b2d126262f75c
Message ID: <199603070006.TAA18662@homeport.org>
Reply To: <v02140b00ad6326a515a9@[199.2.22.124]>
UTC Datetime: 1996-03-10 14:58:27 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:58:27 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:58:27 +0800
To: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Subject: Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
In-Reply-To: <v02140b00ad6326a515a9@[199.2.22.124]>
Message-ID: <199603070006.TAA18662@homeport.org>
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Jim McCoy wrote:
| Two problems:
| 
|         1- Chaum did not have the clue to pick up on this when two
|            cypherpunks (who shall remain nameless...) pitched this
|            and several other ideas to involve ISPs in jump-starting
|            ecash almost two years ago, so why would he figure it out
|            now?

	But now we don't need no stinkin' license.  We just use Mark
Twain ecash.  

	The big problem with this is that net phones can be subject to
delay & drop out, and I don't want to deal with that when I'm talking
on the phone.

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume






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