Jim McCoy wrote: | Two problems: | | 1- Chaum did not have the clue to pick up on this when two | cypherpunks (who shall remain nameless...) pitched this | and several other ideas to involve ISPs in jump-starting | ecash almost two years ago, so why would he figure it out | now?
But now we don't need no stinkin' license. We just use Mark Twain ecash.
The big problem with this is that net phones can be subject to delay & drop out, and I don't want to deal with that when I'm talking on the phone.
Adam
-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
One thing to remember, this is still a developing program. With the increasing of bandwith and the development of new and better compression algorithyms, this will slowly fade. This is only the begining. In a couple years, the transmision and reception could be as good, if not better than the normal telephone, you never know. -- "... In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up..." Pastor Martin Niemoller ++++++++++++ ************************************** * Matthew Murphy ------------ eggplant@inlink.com * ---------- * http://www.inlink.com/~eggplant * The Web page is under construciton at this time though.. * Please don't mind the mess.... * ************************************** ++++++++++++ finger eggplant@inlink.com for my PGP key.