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Re: A cryptographic alternative to escrow agents (Matts' half coin)

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NODE 7330ec1aRe: A cryptographic alternative to escrow agents (Matts' half coin) "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>Mon, 20 May 1996 20:20:56 +0800

From:	IN%"unicorn@schloss.li"  "Black Unicorn" 18-MAY-1996 11:46:08.35

>The mint is the escrow agent.  It still (obviously) needs to be trusted.

	The mint will need to be trustworthy anyway; otherwise, you can get a
"final round" problem in which they print up lots of ecash and spend it before
the value completely plummets, or they get lots of requests to cash existing
ecash in.
	-Allen