-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- March 8, 1999 Boston, Massachusetts If you're planning on coming, or even speaking :-), to the Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Applications, please sign up on the registration page, <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html> now. We haven't had a lot of interest so far, but we're still willing to have it anyway, if enough people are interested. If not, we'll try to arrange another meeting of the clan some other time when it's more convenient for everyone. Since I'm currently involved in writing -- and, hopefully, selling -- a business plan for an internet bearer underwriting corporation, called, oddly enough, The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation, it may be a blessing in disguise if we don't hold the Symposium just yet, as I'll get to write on and evangelize the idea a bit more than I would otherwise. Even more fun, for the Corporation's first product, MicroMint-based microcash, I'm looking at buying the equivalent of a financial cryptography supercomputer, something I'm calling an underwriting engine. So, I will shortly find myself, much to my everlasting shame :-) -- and to the equal glee of Vin McLelland, I'm sure -- looking for institutional-level venture funding for the project. Anyway, there would certainly be more bandwidth at a symposium on digital bearer settlement than you would find on the various email lists, and things really *are* heating up lately, what with some kind of bankruptcy hearing on DigiCash soon (this month?), the Marc Briceno syndicate's offer for the DigiCash IP portfolio, with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir saying that "Deep Crack" is really a MicroMint engine in disguise, and so forth. There's even a group of us kicking around a possible IETF, or maybe just guerillanet(?), bandwidth-for-cash protocol we're calling "paypacket", all of which we can talk about, in detail, at the Harvard Club on March 25th and 26th. Anyway, as always, it's your call. If I get, say, 12 people signed up for the Symposium by midnight tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9, I won't, in the immortal words of Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre(?), "shoot this kitten" :-), and we'll have the Symposium. Otherwise, some other time, then. The registration page is <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html>. Cheers, Robert Hettinga, Founder, Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 iQEVAwUBNuPpxsUCGwxmWcHhAQF/hwgApvjA/g/MIh6nTRy1N4Y2OFZUY+8x8N3l 5aZ+gwpdPa+ITPie9fvDxs6WsynRr0N8IX+gtA1KaWAce0GoSsoC6yL/82inQyu9 VGfQrcZ+bnT1ncK/TME7nmhG45wge7q8UbPzuf4jlcdVBKeqjdausk/e9FLDdPo4 iHzZFWJ9j9ZD0p+bI+ajd6ZsKmJ7nI+k6/+I4RqQyOBCxOJFYtB/2foYCPiOL6tH H+xajFlA2N5hNxwfzsLXbogDsh136bn+xAaDGwtWkemiMtoNCxwfoTbxZROth3hH DvK6Nxhxt1o1nUPsbh3iK4za9VrTy7XM/cGY4Hq3bHiue+BKrFL61w== =Ry+1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
