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Status: RO Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:31:31 -0800 To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "e-gold Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [e-gold-list] DBCs now issued by DMT Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:45 PM 12/3/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >I suppose that if it's not blinded, or at least functionally anonymous, >like you'd get with statistically-tested streaming cash, it's not *that* >bearer, but, hey, that's just *my* opinion, right? Since it has no payee or associated holder information and can "circulate" via re-issuance (even if there is a charge) it has bearer "characteristics". >I would assume that anything that has accounts with client names on them is >probably not bearer, either, though Mark Twain did something quite like >that. DMT accounts have no customer information associated. steve --- 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]
