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RE: underground digital economy
Certainly. There are a couple of ways, but all one needs is some sort of
gateway to an e-cash, which is simply e-money without identification. The
gateway could take the form of a human intermediary, with either services or
physical goods being the medium of exchange, or simply an exchange server
which takes a cut off the top, as happens in the street all the time in
countries that have currency restrictions.
Kurt
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From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 1996 14:39
To: [email protected]
Subject: underground digital economy
Question:
The existing underground economy uses the same money as the aboveground
economy (i.e. paper money, for the most part). Could a significant
underground digital economy develop if the aboveground digital economy
used only identified e-money?
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