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Status: U Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:32:22 -0500 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Adam L Beberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: FoRK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Peppercoin Raises $4 Million in First Round Funding, Appoints CEO List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork.xent.com> List-Archive: <http://lair.xent.com/pipermail/fork> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 03:45 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Rivest and Micali's microcheque protocol gets a ducat-download. > > Next stop an IPO -- and then an eBay buyout... ;-). Hahaha... "about 7 percent per transaction" - NOT mentioned on the website anywhere, I had to look in a Wired article - we call that an "F*** the merchant" rate folks, even AMEX isn't that high. Windows only. Interface software is NOT open source. Oh, and they are used by 6 merchants. VISA is soooooo scared, oooooooooooo. However, POD Holding is obviously a good source of sucker money, send in those business plans folks :) - Adam L. Beberg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/ _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]