-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 declan wrote:
>Not so with digital cash. It also suffers from deployment problems, of >course, but far more substantial regulatory ones. You need two >consenting users -- and a tie-in to the banking system (preferable) or >at least some exchange of value (like e-gold) that's sufficiently >trusted. Crypto may peeve the FBI, but widespread digital cash is far >more alarming to governments, which will not permit true digital cash >to be deployed in any popular way. One obvious way to limit its utility >is to restrict its tie-ins with the banking system, or prohibit businesses >within their borders from using it. >That's the crypto winter. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely do you think it is that these problems will be resolved in, say, the next decade? Where are the people most likely to make it happen? Fascinating stuff. ~Faustine. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBO/gzVfg5Tuca7bfvEQK1DwCgyCw1QvZIjie9VIkgLmp00ge9YysAmwcf nqGR0VKxjIUA9rSRh47ggYeK =6Gcw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
