On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:18:53AM -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
The government has a long history, particularly where the IRS is
IRS who?
concerned, of ruling that what something actually is, is not necessarily what it is called.
The governments have a long history of using whatever means available to maintain their monopoly -- be it exertion of force or maintaining the mint.
This will extend the "know your customer" BS to a plethora of other businesses, and subject them to the same onerous regulatory climate banks now experience.
I'm not quite following you here. Examples?
This will be the death of e-cash.
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