Bob Hettinga wrote:
Quoting "Blanc <blancw@cnw.com>":
But sometimes it seems like it will be a Cold Day in Hell before that happens.
(Ryan, would you make this your next project? We'd all appreciate it *ever* so much.)
I think I've figured out why ecash hasn't been deployed. 1) "Math is hard! Let's go shopping!" 2) Yet, ecash can be used for shopping. The resulting paradox has rendered ecash a logical impossibility :)
Not to un-swash his buckle, and all that, because he really deserves massive kudos for what he's done with HavenCo., but Ryan's already tried that, once before, on Anguilla, if we all remember, and it wasn't at all pretty (cf. Declan's articles earlier this year about the E-Gold/Systemics pissing contest).
Twice, actually, if you count HINDE. (unclear if 0 for 2 is better than 0 for 1; I actually think so. Better than 0 for 0 regardless.) -- Ryan Lackey [RL7618 RL5931-RIPE] ryan@havenco.com CTO and Co-founder, HavenCo Ltd. +44 7970 633 277 the free world just milliseconds away http://www.havenco.com/ OpenPGP 4096: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F