Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

[A. Melon]

Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59  AM, Mike Rosing wrote:
  But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no
  royalties on his motor/generator.  Something for Brands to think
  about.
 
 No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home wiring
 situations.

Hmmm.  I always thought the reason we went with AC was because at the
time, DC power couldn't cut it.  They couldn't find any way to reliably
transfer DC power more than a half mile or so from the power plant, and
when trying to demonstrate it in NYC couldn't even get DC power all the
way up a multi-story building.

Tesla's AC power solved this problem, after which Edison and his backers
started some kind of smear campaign saying that DC was safer and such.

Mr Anonymous

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-line tech)

[A. Melon]

Peter Trei writes:
 Speaking for myself and a few friends and relations, we'd
 be perfectly happy to use them, if they were available.

A good place to get Sacagawea dollars is from the stamp machine at your
local post office.  Put in a $20 bill and buy as small an amount of
stamps as you can, and many of the machines will give you golden dollars
in change.  Make sure you check the machine first; it should be labeled
about what kind of change it gives.  Otherwise you'll be hauling around
dozens of quarters.