-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Durden wrote: | However, I'd bet there are short-term applications for crypto that | really matter and yet have no real relationship to $$$ (for instance, | what if there was widespread communications and crypto in Nazi | Germany...would the holocaust have happened?) | | -TD Yes. The Jews knew what was happening which is why the rich, smart, and / or politically savvy got out early in the 30's. Sure it may have saved a few more lives, but prevented it, no. Crypto won't hide your ethnicity. This is like arguing would widespread communications and crypto in the US slave south have prevented black enslavement. Sure the underground railroad would have worked better, but your still black. - -Peter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAiN82riJJDZPNJ28RAjbVAKDUWgWQJjH0xw3ulnez9SRfalfLaACgn1I3 jYawSZU+yp9kkXQhxy+oI+g= =3EaI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----