17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos) writes: [...]
Network shopping services which use strong crypto and non-standard DigiCash protocols to avoid a painless VAT will have poor propagation, limited access, negative PR, and few customers.
Wanna bet? All it would take is one entity to set up a service of converting untracable digicash tokens into the appropriate tracable tokens under the name of a pseudo-account at the service. Now I can use my digicash tokens for everything under the regulated system, _and_ I can use them at digicash-only services... jim