From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:30:36 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Tense visions of future imperfect
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From:	IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com"  "Bill Stewart" 11-APR-1996 00:21:15.87

>Personally, I find the idea that the government could hope to track the
>economy so closely as to notice a $10M/year addition to the money supply to
>be disturbing (though it was done in a science fiction story about
>20 years ago :-)  With digital cash, it's also unrealistic - we
>finally have a technology for moving money around _without_
>them being able to track it all, if we want to deploy it.

	One related question is if the government would notice an underground
fully anonymous digital cash setup - transactions disappearing from their
"radar screen."
	-Allen