Certainly. There are a couple of ways, but all one needs is some sort of gateway to an e-cash
This is the part that bothers me. Wouldn't a gateway between anonymous e-money and identified e-money would stick out like a sore thumb to agencies tracking the flow of identified e-money? Wouldn't identified e-money trails start and/or terminate at the gateway? Once the gateway is discovered, all clients on the identified e-money side of the gateway would be discovered. I think the gateway could only succeed if there was a way to perform the conversion anonymously. But how do you anonymously generate/propagate identified e-money? There is probably an obvious solution, but I'm not devious enough to see it. One unstated assumption I have that may be confounding me is that I assume the identified e-money system will completely replace paper money, which will then be "discontinued". Jim_Miller@suite.com