At 8:56 AM -0800 3/7/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Sure you will, if the groceries are in front of you, and the purchase or
possession of some of them you don't want associated with anything. In this case the reputation of the grocer and/or your ability to assay the groceries (in meatspace) suffice.
Right. More to the point, the only person you trust in a bearer transaction is the underwriter, who, of course, can be a persistent pseudonym. 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'