Digital Cash Escrow

Bill Stewart stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Fri Apr 12 05:26:52 PDT 1996


At 08:11 PM 4/10/96 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>At 10:14 PM 4/10/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
>>Of course, if you happen to become dead while you're storing it,
>>the paper cash is far more useful to your heirs, so I assume we'll have
>>a government-sponsored cash-escrow system announced soon to protect
>>the government's interest in collection of inheritance taxes...
>
>Don't give them ideas, Bill! They are known to monitor our list for
>insights into what to regulate next, and I can see the 15-watt lightbulbs
>going on over their heads as they ponder the wonderful opportunities
>presented by "digital cash escrow."

You're one to talk, Tim :-)  A couple years back you joked about a
"Position Escrow System", and now Dorothy's proposing the technology
to actually implement it!

#					Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, stewarts at ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215







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