At 05:54 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
At 09:30 PM 12/20/01 -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
A token-based remailer system, while an "obvious" system, would be a major accomplishment.
Any kind of privacy-enhanced token/payment/value system would be a major accomplishment at this point. The c'punks have been in biz for almost ten years now, and private payments have always been probably the #1 goal, and we are _further_ from having a private payment system now than we were ten years ago. We've got the math. We don't have the software or the business, though.
The reasons for this have been debated over and over. We're at an impasse.
Its not possible for the mousetrap builders to generate interest in the better stopping of mice. We don't control the silos of grain nor the investors therein. Do not thrash your soul over this.
I disagree. We should all be ashamed. The main reason we don't have the private payment system many have discussed is lazyness/"better things to do with their time" by those with the technical ability to create the SW (if I were one of them the SW would be done by now, as I've easily spent 1-2 many years and $10Ks trying to get others to write the code). Funding the payment system, as Tim has noted, is not that hard. steve