Also, there are other potential claims for this sort of thing. Based on varying extents to which the "electronic money" is really secure, is cryptographically interesting, etc.

Sorry, I think we should kill this thread while we're still on top of it. The discussion was CyberBucks, not electronic payments or anything like that. I _KNOW_ what the first transaction was, since I made it, I saw it at the bank, I received the goods, and got an email from the sender saying it was the first transaction. I do not wish to take claim for any of that other stuff, whether it is Chaumian or not. No doubt somebody traded some baseball cards for a few bits somewhere back in the fifties. Let's not dig up any other dead bodies. My claim (which was only to show the incorrectness of the other) is a very restrictive one, and is only for the CyberBucks trading. // Marcel van der Peijl, DigiCash bv, http://www.digicash.com/~bigmac/ // The hottest instruction on a P90? JMP $ @ 2.633A or 52C (with fan)