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1998-09-27 - Re: Cypherpunks defeat?

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From: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
To: “James A. Donald” <jamesd@echeque.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-09-27 18:19:47 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:19:47 +0800

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From: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:19:47 +0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks defeat?
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, James A. Donald wrote:

> We really need an open system, which IBM is not, which goes
> down to millicent values, which IBM does not, and which
> supports intermediaries moving aggregated transactions, so
> that customer and server to not have to be clients of the
> same intermediary, which IBM does support, and previous
> proposals for micropayment did not.
> 
>     --digsig
>          James A. Donald

Sound like we need something like a GPL for digital cash
protocols/algorithms.

That would keep it from being monopolized by a few power
players.

Someone has to be working on this.

jim

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