This may or may not fly, but it is at least worth puting out for general comment... Have the people in the e-cash biz thought of getting with the various "Cyber Cafes" around the world to sell e-cash to the patrons. Done properly, this could inject e-cash into a community who would both use the cash, as well as providing privacy and an exchange for real currency. There is probibly some sort of financial regulation against it, but it is an idea to look into... --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."