Re: Ecash w/ offshore bank clearing house

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

"Gary Jeffers" says:
>    Well Chaum's ecash doesn't seem to be quite the Holy Grail that it
> looked like. It needs a clearing house to be effective. Would an off-
> shore bank acting as a clearing house for Chaum's ecash be practical?
> Could that be a State Killer?

Nothing, other than several hundred thermonuclear weapons aimed in a
grid to slag the entire territory, will be a single technology capable
of "state killing", regardless of the state in question. E-Cash will,
of course, be an important tool in increasing people's privacy.

Perry