[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Tense visions of future imperfect
From: IN%"[email protected]" "Bill Stewart" 11-APR-1996 00:21:15.87
>Personally, I find the idea that the government could hope to track the
>economy so closely as to notice a $10M/year addition to the money supply to
>be disturbing (though it was done in a science fiction story about
>20 years ago :-) With digital cash, it's also unrealistic - we
>finally have a technology for moving money around _without_
>them being able to track it all, if we want to deploy it.
One related question is if the government would notice an underground
fully anonymous digital cash setup - transactions disappearing from their
"radar screen."
-Allen