"MintChip" is a micro payment system being promoted by the Canadian Mint: http://mintchipchallenge.com/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/04/12/technology-mintchip-digit... This was covered on Slashdot last week, but I didn't see any posts on it here. CBC radio had an interesting follow-up story on this on Monday. They did an interview on digital currency in Sweden: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/04/16/the-death-of-cash-by-way-of-... -James _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE