ecash, cut & choose and private credentials (Re: Jim Bell)

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 11:24 PM -0800 on 12/3/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:


> "Check and see if he's got
> overdraft protection for the extra two hundred...  if he doesn't,
> then put it on his credit card with a fifteen dollar loan orignation
> fee and charge him two percent a month...."

Doesn't work like that.

It's more like "Eediot. That's what you get for doing an offline
transaction. No soup for you!"

:-).

Cheers,
RAH
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