17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"Gary Jeffers" says:
Well Chaum's ecash doesn't seem to be quite the Holy Grail that it looked like. It needs a clearing house to be effective. Would an off- shore bank acting as a clearing house for Chaum's ecash be practical? Could that be a State Killer?
Nothing, other than several hundred thermonuclear weapons aimed in a grid to slag the entire territory, will be a single technology capable of "state killing", regardless of the state in question. E-Cash will, of course, be an important tool in increasing people's privacy. Perry