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Ecash in US rumours
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Jul 10 09:58:31 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 07:14:49 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:49:51 +1000
From: Somebody in Australia
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To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Ecash in US rumours
Hi Bob,
I keep on hearing in people's emails and articles moans that DigiCash
are not doing anything these days, especially in the US. I can't believe
that I'm the only one to have heard that that's far from the truth.
The story I've heard is that one of the biggest banks in the US (and the
world) (no I don't know which one) is to take up ecash by the end of the
year, maybe sooner. I believe tests are currently underway.
Part of this bank's involvement with ecash will be the operation of an
international clearing house for ecash, so finally Finnish ecash will be
able to be used at a Mark Twain store, or St George in Australia, etc
etc. Hopefully this will be the catalyst we've been waiting for to see
widespread use of ecash on the Net.
Better make this anonymous if you repost it, just in case I'm not
supposed to be talking about it :-)
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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 Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Transaction Settlement
July 23-24, 1998: <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html>
