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Re: Digicash will not fly (not)



"James A. Donald" <[email protected] wrote:
>While Chaum is a brilliant cryptographer, he is an incompetent businessman
>
>He has demonstrated this in numerous ways.
>
>The latest being "Cash" where the bank skims off 4% to 10% every time.
>
>No one is going to use digicash under these kinds of terms and 
>conditions.


Doesn't just about everyone do precisely this when they pay sales tax?
Every time a buck arrives or departs a hand one pays a tax yet the system (you and I)continues accepting these terms albeit painfully.


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