"Should everyone on the list be given a set amount of digital cash to start the 'poker game', or will we choose a smaller, representative sample? " Maybe we should generate some digicash with a PostScript printer, just to make it interesting. I wonder how public key cryptology would effect efforts to counterfeit ? It seems to me that this same technology could make cash much harder to forge ... even allowing one to actually _print_ one's tender, authenticated by the information buried in the serial number of the bill ... and it would be the serial numbers that the bank would track, not the actual pieces of paper. -- richard ===== -- richard childers rchilder@us.oracle.com 1 415 506 2411 oracle data center -- unix systems & network administration Klein flask for rent. Inquire within.