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List:       cryptography
Subject:    Re: eCash
From:       Adam Shostack <adam () weathership ! homeport ! org>
Date:       1998-08-31 18:09:51
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	Digicash does not need one bank.  Digicash needs all banks.
This selecting your customers nonsense does not lead to market
domination.  It does not lead to widespread deployment.  It does not
lead to your investors getting stinking rich.  If I were the someone
anonymized below, I'd be on the phone with the DC board, asking if
they know their CEO is turning down contracts.

Adam


On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:38:15PM -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
| 
| --- begin forwarded text
| 
| From: Somebody
| To: "'Robert Hettinga'" <rah@shipwright.com>
| Subject: RE: eCash
| Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:06:21 -0400
| 
| Hi Robert,
| 
| It's not generally known, and if asked it was not me who told you; but
| Digicash is planning to launch a new US issuing bank later this year.  The
| bank is rumored to be either Chase or Citibank, I haven't had confirmation
| of which one.
| 
| We (<company name>) were attempting to do some business with Digicash and
| were informed to wait for this partner bank in the US, as they were going to
| be able to expand the use of Digicash through their very large customer
| base.
| 
| Hope this helps,
| 
| <Somebody's .sig>
| 
| --- end forwarded text
| 
| 
| -----------------
| Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
| Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
| 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
| "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
| [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
| experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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