From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 22:06:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re:Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996
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At 4:35 AM -0400 8/21/96, Jim McCoy wrote:
> The big problem is that no one has data that is worth protecting enough to
> make such a venture pay off.

Well, maybe not yet.

An overnight backup copy of a $10 million foreign exchange banknote might.

$2 trillion in FX trxes a day, folks...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga


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