-- On 7 Sep 2003 at 12:49, Eric Cordian wrote:
Secure anonymous digital money will never win out over easy to use, good buddies with Homeland Security systems like Paypal in the wide adoption Olympics.
Non anonymous digital money is inherently reversible. For many purposes, this is a good thing. For other purposes, damn near intolerable. Reversibility imposes large costs on issuer, buyer, and seller. Reversibility imposes on all participants not merely the possibility of tracking identity, but the necessity to track identity, which is expensive and a major pain in the ass. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w43FmWVSVxGrGkglKwhrbDlYPv+GcqZ9RzftUTCi 4nRt4abzGjha5XY7VEVcS7IDx7m9vN9VBDIRElHh7