Despite its lack of popularity with many cypherpunks, I'm occaisonally a fan of FV. Yes, they blow big chunks in marketing. Yes, they're selling a cheesy hack to move credit cards. Yes, they sit on merchants cash for 90 days. But.. I can set up a client account for $2, a merchant for $10. I can set up the client account in literally three minutes. I don't need special software distributed in binary for machines I don't have. I don't like it, but the low tech cheesy solutions often beat out better stuff because they are cheap & low cost of entry. Not to start a religious war in this area, bit witness wintel. Adam | Hello. I've been off the list for quite a while now, so I'm not up to | date on the current ecash schemes. My company (a major internet service | provider with a lot of web advertising clients) is looking into which | digital cash method would be best to support for use on our customer's | web pages. The head of the web department has taken a look at several, | and is torn between Mark Twain's stuff and Cybercash. I was wondering if | people who have looked at these systems could give me a rundown on the | major differences. I know that Mark Twain is nice and secure (or at least | I *think* I know that) but Cybercash is signifigantly easier to use. Any | comments would be welcome, and to keep list volume down (I assume it's | still as busy as ever) I'd be happy to recieve replies via direct email, | and sumarize for the list. | | Happy Hunting, -Chris Odhner | - GoodNet - | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume