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Re: PC E-cash (NewsClip)
>Secret Service Says Student Used PC To Print Money
etc.
This reminds me of something which happened to me last week in a Burger King in Chelsea(MA), where the skipper now keeps the boat I grind winches on. I'm paying for my lunch and the cashier takes out a felt-tip pen and puts a little mark on my $10 bill. She tells me that if the pen-stroke turns yellow instead of the black one she got with mine, the bill is counterfeit. She told me she got yellow mark on $10 bill once. Go figure.
So now, we have a working miniumum competitive cost of on-line digital cash verification. The amortized cost of the ink it takes to verify a piece of paper cash. What? 20 cents worth of ink? .002 cents?
More fun with numbers,
Bob Hettinga
P.S. We just put in 12 volt power for the Mac. I also bought an inverter.
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Robert Hettinga ([email protected])
Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923
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