Re: Brands excluded from digicash beta

From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)

From: Alex Strasheim <alex@omaha.com>

Unless Digicash has significant problems with banks or governments that I don't know about (always a possibility),

I have a simple rule of publicity here. If there were a bank who had already agreed to back ecash, would it not already have been announced? Since no announcement of the sort has been forthcoming, I conclude that the probability that such a backer exists right now is low.

Unless said bank wanted to set up the necessary infrastructure and possibly work in back ends to home-banking software and other pieces that make such a system usable for "real people." In all likelyhood your conclusion is most likely erroneous. jim