Brands excluded from digicash beta
Jim McCoy
mccoy at io.com
Sun Dec 4 14:47:11 PST 1994
> From: eric at remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
>
> From: Alex Strasheim <alex at omaha.com>
>
> Unless Digicash has significant problems with banks or governments that I
> don't know about (always a possibility),
>
> I have a simple rule of publicity here. If there were a bank who had
> already agreed to back ecash, would it not already have been
> announced? Since no announcement of the sort has been forthcoming, I
> conclude that the probability that such a backer exists right now is
> low.
Unless said bank wanted to set up the necessary infrastructure and possibly
work in back ends to home-banking software and other pieces that make such
a system usable for "real people." In all likelyhood your conclusion is
most likely erroneous.
jim
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