Digital Cash
Perry E. Metzger
perry at snark.imsi.com
Tue May 3 06:19:54 PDT 1994
Jeff Davis says:
> >
> > But this question comes up often enough that I'm afraid I'm missing
> > something. Why would offline systems be more useful?
>
> Anonymity.
Online systems are also guaranteed anonymous. The whole point of
offline transactions is just to eliminate the need to be online, which
can be inconvenient -- as an example, if you are trying to buy
something on a streetcorner or otherwise away from telecom. In the
future, this will not be so much of a problem. For the moment its
quite interesting.
Perry
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