Sad news ... (... or not ;-))

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From: Somebody
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:02:28 +0100
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Sad news ...
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Hi Bob,

I figured you might be interested in today's news: DigiCash Amsterdam has
officially gone bankrupt.

Even though anyone can access the news (although probably not yet in
electronic
form), I'd appreciate if you don't mention me as being the one who told you
this.
I take it that the details will be brought to light in the coming few weeks.

Anyway, I believe this is very bad news for all those who believe in "bearer
certificates" or whatever one might like to call them.

<Somebody's .sig>
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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'

At 3:30 PM -0500 10/6/98, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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>From: Somebody
>Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:02:28 +0100
>To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
>Subject: Sad news ...
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>I figured you might be interested in today's news: DigiCash Amsterdam has
>officially gone bankrupt.

>Even though anyone can access the news (although probably not yet in
>electronic
>form), I'd appreciate if you don't mention me as being the one who told you
>this.
>I take it that the details will be brought to light in the coming few weeks.

>Anyway, I believe this is very bad news for all those who believe in "bearer
>certificates" or whatever one might like to call them.

	Then again, maybe it won't be.

	Who owns the patents, Digicash, or Chaum?

	If it's digicash, who will buy the rights to it, and what would
"they" do with that technology.
--
petro@playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy.
petro@bounty.org-----for everthing else.      They wouldn't like that.
                                              They REALLY
Economic speech IS political speech.          wouldn't like that.

At 6:57 PM -0400 on 10/6/98, Petro wrote:

> 	Who owns the patents, Digicash, or Chaum?

DigiCash, Inc., of the US of A, not DigiCash BV, of the Netherlands.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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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'