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1997-04-29 - Re: Chaum steps down as CEO of Digicash

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Message Hash: 18ddc10316e965d5c94d0943f3ef02c90ff82bd365e206338752008c6c72dd96
Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9704291221.A11950-0100000@netcom19>
Reply To: <v03020919af8b9e12df33@[139.167.130.246]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-29 19:40:57 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:40:57 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:40:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: Chaum steps down as CEO of Digicash
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> At 1:53 pm -0400 on 4/28/97, Hal Finney wrote:
> 
> > Chaum's orientation towards privacy has not been well accepted by the
> > conservative banking community (a similar point was made by Peter Swire
> > in his article about payments and anonymity).

Having worked for DigiCash for more than one year before giving up on them
due to persistent billing problems, I can assure you that the privacy
features of Ecash have *nothing* to do with the failure of Ecash in the
marketplace. 

The blame for the failure of Ecash rests squarely and exclusively with 
DigiCash's management.

--Lucky

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