[e-gold-list] Re: Delayed payments

2003-11-21 Thread Robert B.Z.
Patrick, Great that you remember as well. Looking around me I was beginning to wonder if my youth was just a product of my vivid imagination :o) Jens, You are right, of course, that two types of acounts, current and saving, so to say, would be the way to go. However, then e-gold runs the risk of

[e-gold-list] Re: Delayed payments

2003-11-20 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Robert B.Z. wrote: How about agreeing that people who get their metal stolen because they use too easy a password or have it on a postit next to their monitor *deserve* to loose their stash because it keeps them among other pedestrians and stuck with

[e-gold-list] Re: Delayed payments

2003-11-20 Thread Wilkinson Jens
I personally like the idea of some kind of security, but it would clearly impose some limitations. What about a solution such as the following: lots of banks have different types of accounts, like checking versus savings. Why not have "receive/spend" accounts, that are instantaneous