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Re: backing ecash

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Subject: Re: backing ecash
From: [email protected] (Eric Hughes)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 18:27:52 -0800
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (message from Alex Strasheim on Sun, 4 Dec 1994 22:30:52 -0600 (CST))
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   From: Alex Strasheim <[email protected]>

   Suppose Digicash opened up a digital currency exchange in Amsterdam.
   [...]

Left unexamined here are the ways in which various things can go
wrong.

   Edollars would still have value here in Lincoln, NE USA.

How much?  Not full value, that's for sure, because of the risk cost
associated with getting the edollars back to Amsterdam.  What happens
when womthing goes wrong in Amsterdam?  What happens?  What effective
recourse does a USA holder have with respect to a Netherlands company?

Your basic idea, however, is right on target, that you don't need to
be a bank to issue digital currency.  On the other hand, with that
realization your problems are only beginning.

Eric

References:
- backing ecash
  - From: Alex Strasheim <[email protected]>

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