-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston (Formerly The Boston Society for Digital Commerce) Presents Mark Bernkopf Tales from the Dark Side: Non-Anonymous Digital Cash? Tuesday, March 5, 1995 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA This past autumn, Mark wrote a couple of studies on electronic money. He will offer some general thoughts on likely winners and losers of the cash-card competition. Mark opposes totally untraceable electronic cash. He is skeptical of private currencies, although he concedes one type of private currency that might succeed. Since late 1993, Mark Bernkopf has been an economic and financial policy analyst at Bruce Morgan Associates, Inc., a small international consultancy in Arlington, VA. He prepares a semi-annual World Economic Outlook, and writes on such subjects as central banking and monetary policy, currency boards, the economics of Korean reunification, derivatives, bancassurance, and industrial policy. His firm's clients are mostly Middle Eastern governments and large East Asian corporations and thinktanks. In previous "incarnations" Mark served at the Clinton White House Office of Communications and at the Open Market Operations Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a Wharton grad and a clandestine contributor to Pasi Kuoppamäki's "Jokes about Economists and Economists" http://www.etla.fi/pkm/joke.html This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, March 5, 1995 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have a jacket and tie dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, March 2, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for the following few months are: April Donald Eastlake CyberCash May Perry Metzger Security Consultant and Cypherpunk June Dan Shutzer FSTC July Pete Loshin Author, "Electronic Commerce" August Duane Hewitt Idea Futures We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah@shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSS2l/gyLN8bw6ZVAQEtHQP9GoForXlqC37poPqWsXJmjTM+4oNuxrt6 uWDxNeshrJcn1bzwr3pumKQo/5ep+2x0+SSK4Ay2DMmNZwt/vYI/UvaWsfQoRQVg t4vJ3cZQ4/ESuZ5lMbDORPUoUFwcxcJf0qcw0AXT0asZBFfaqRajg98bSqIQECYO 6mNXIuGtoqk= =pR6y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/