NODE e494309fMark Twain/Mercantile dumps Digicash
Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:57:04 +0800
According to
<http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,1721,00.html?home.mf>,
Mark Twain Bank/Mercantile Bank will no longer support DigiCash. They are
no longer listed as an issuer of ecash on Digicash' website. Neither
organization seems to have information available via the web about the
decision to terminate the service.
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Greg Broiles
gbroiles@netbox.com
NODE 7bb33a16Re: Mark Twain/Mercantile dumps Digicash
Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:14:12 +0800
At 09:04 PM 9/17/98 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
>
>According to
><http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,1721,00.html?home.mf>,
>Mark Twain Bank/Mercantile Bank will no longer support DigiCash. They are
>no longer listed as an issuer of ecash on Digicash' website. Neither
>organization seems to have information available via the web about the
>decision to terminate the service.
>
>--
>Greg Broiles
>gbroiles@netbox.com
I thought this was already known or I would have said:
"Mark Twain Bank (MTB), a small bank headquartered in the Midwest, took a
bold step
three years ago when it became the first bank in the world to offer
privacy-protecting eCash
accounts. In April, 1997, however, MTB was bought out by Mercantile Bank,
and the larger,
stodgier bank recently decided to drop the eCash program."
They probably weren't making any money. I wonder if Mercantile will drop
MTB's foreign currency accounts as well?
DCF