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Re: Digital Cash

To: cypher <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Digital Cash
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 09:19:33 -0400
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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

References:
- Re: Digital Cash
  - From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>

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