-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:33 PM 04/13/96 EDT, "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:

From: IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com" "Bill Stewart" 11-APR-1996 00:21:15.87

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Personally, I find the idea that the government could hope to track the economy so closely as to notice a $10M/year addition to the money supply to be disturbing (though it was done in a science fiction story about 20 years ago :-) With digital cash, it's also unrealistic - we finally have a technology for moving money around _without_ them being able to track it all, if we want to deploy it.

One related question is if the government would notice an underground fully anonymous digital cash setup - transactions disappearing from their "radar screen."

I wouldn't expect Gov't to notice any individual transaction, of course, but doubtless they would eventually notice that the expected amounts of money weren't where anticipated. At that point, I suspect things would get "interesting" (moreso than now :-) regarding currency tracing. Dave Merriman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMW/Ii8VrTvyYOzAZAQEkdgQAqKqqbAAn3GIaW3/pdHKMWj8zN2FPuIa+ UEwJsz0Kjs4Whlt+UzjygJtKX1sXPnNjjf47l8tDQWqknrhxO1SDBlmsk1lHeM24 FPYFSwWH+y/zhlxjfj0mn2LlLngvN5UuWU7UG2Q7lKk0DjHvxqAYdbQDNfs1bXRm pxlXPaz1T2k= =rnwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> http://www.shellback.com/personal/merriman/index.htm