At 10:40 PM -0800 on 1/28/01, Dagny Taggart wrote:
> Digital
> bearer commodities
Just for fun, here, digital bearer is a financial cryptography term of art
for a class of protocols which are functionally anonymous by default
because they don't require book-entries, and thus biometric identity, to
clear and settle.
e-gold, et. al., are digital, but certainly not bearer.
Yet. :-).
Cheers,
RAH
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