From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:56:23 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: E-Gold: It had to happen
Message-ID: <199702201456.GAA14483@toad.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:53:31 +0100
From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
To: Multiple recipients of <e$@thumper.vmeng.com>
Subject: Re: E-Gold:  It had to happen

some dead guy called gold dot wrote:
> Yo, c-punks:

Yo, dude

>  In the back of the March 97 issue of Liberty Magazine is an ad
>  for a gold backed e-money system called e-gold(tm).  It appears
>  to be an on-line transaction system for paying other e-gold
>  account holders in e-money backed with gold or other precious
>  metals.

Nice one, perhaps you could scan in the ad, seeing as my issue doesn't
arrive until ... March.  Your system "appears to be" an accounting
system stuck on top of SSL.  But I guess we don't get to find out, for
sure, unless we commit lots of bucks...

>  See http://www.e-gold.com/ for more info.

Yeah, nice pages, lots of homework done here folks, but you forgot to
mention:

  who are you?
  where are you?
  when are you?
  will you be?

--
iang
iang@systemics.com
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