CDR: Re: Chaumian cash redux

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Sat Sep 23 10:26:35 PDT 2000


At 5:37 AM +0000 on 9/23/00, Anonymous wrote:


> what it needs is some
> organisation (a suggestion Bob) to provide demos, business
> presentations and offer suit friendly support and legal
> interpretations of the protocol's patent unemcumberedness,

Suggestion noted about a year and a half ago. :-). See the url in my .sig,
below, which is *slowly* accreting new(er) stuff besides the pretty boat
picture...

> and it
> could perhaps itself compete head on with Chaum I patents now held by
> ECashTechnologies, and to some extent with Brands/Zero-Knowledge.

As an actual financial intermediary, IBUC would rather licence than
compete, thank you very much. :-).

In the meantime, some interesting stuff is afoot. Some of it can even be
made public pretty soon, I think...

Cheers,
RAH



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