Re: Chaumian cash redux

2000-09-23 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >But of course someone did think of it before. He was just too far ahead of > >his time. When I spoke to Chaum recently, he professed to have "burned out" > >trying to make Digicash work. He had sold its patents to another company > >and was > >

Re: Chaumian cash redux

2000-09-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:37 AM + on 9/23/00, Anonymous wrote: > what it needs is some > organisation (a suggestion Bob) to provide demos, business > presentations and offer suit friendly support and legal > interpretations of the protocol's patent unemcumberedness, Suggestion noted about a year and a half ago.

Chaumian cash redux

2000-09-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:11:35 -0700 From: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Chaumian cash redux At the EFF end-of-RSA ball in SF last night David Chaum stood up and said a few enigmatic words: "Great to be here, and what's really important now is that w