-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Steven Levy <steven@echonyc.com> and cypherpunks@toad.com and "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> V.Z.N (order of paragraphs rearranged by J.B.): ...
I would suggest to all companies developing e-cash that they print up a carefully designed FAQ in which their cash properties are compared directly with parallel properties of credit cards such as like the item above, because the ...
Well, why not one of us? Please have a look at http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jirib/ecash-cc.html and tell me what you think. Any good? ...
how would the bank handle a situation in which the consumer says, "oops, my hard drive was compromised. all of the following cash was NOT spent by me." ...
Easy: whoever is at the bank first gets the cash. So you simply spend all the coins (ie deposit it back to your account), and that's that. ...
or, the bank might say, "oh, well, that cash was not spent yet. we can issue a replacement and bar the cash from being spent". ...
Yup. No special protocol is needed, either. ...
S.L.:
Question: will people's worries about losing their e-money lead them to accept a higher degree of tracibility as a tradeoff? ...
I read in the newspaper that the "Eros Foundation" (or whatever the name is) has the second-largest mailing list in Australia. (The article was about how they could affect elections should one or the other party promise to ban X (non-violent erotica), and generally concluded that they could, if they haven't already.) I wonder if that'd be a good market for untraceable transactions? Please tell me what you think of the page... http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jirib/ecash-cc.html Jiri - -- If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>. On sweeney, I may delete without reading! PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two) PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMJRYwCxV6mvvBgf5AQH+0QQAsAldRTy6AfXNB5f3+Edgr/Bsww+9gIdX ZTwpWucd4yZof133m5p/qtKeu9KO2qrjBUBQB1W8L35i2O74+FLK2QX5BMftPCU0 F3ClojnayS8J7JZ6gJ42l8uKYglefQ/EnooEHVGO7RTF4t2gaIlstcm0QkdzPQzH DbHjxVc+XvM= =2wPg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----