At 5:37 AM +0000 on 9/23/00, Anonymous wrote:
what it needs is some organisation (a suggestion Bob) to provide demos, business presentations and offer suit friendly support and legal interpretations of the protocol's patent unemcumberedness,
Suggestion noted about a year and a half ago. :-). See the url in my .sig, below, which is *slowly* accreting new(er) stuff besides the pretty boat picture...
and it could perhaps itself compete head on with Chaum I patents now held by ECashTechnologies, and to some extent with Brands/Zero-Knowledge.
As an actual financial intermediary, IBUC would rather licence than compete, thank you very much. :-). In the meantime, some interesting stuff is afoot. Some of it can even be made public pretty soon, I think... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'