From: Paul Robichaux <paul@ljl.COM>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 03:01:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: E-Cash promotion idea
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Matt Carpenter said:
>What if we just forget about change?  One of the neat things about ecash is
>that it allows for coins of (fairly) arbitrary values.  We can use this to
>our advantage, since we can guarantee that we can make a single payment of
>any value with a small number of coins.

The Visa stored-value cards now in Atlanta don't do this, but as a
simplifying measure most vendors in the Olympic Village (and many within
the downtown venue ring) have rounded prices to the nearest US$.
The precedent's been set.

-Paul

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