Digital Currency

[Jonathan Ellis]

On 7/2/07, Michael L Torrie <torriem at chem.byu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 13:27 -0400, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > The important thing is the concept of digital *cash* that, like paper
> > cash, would be anonymous but secure.
>
> Not going to ever happen, in my opinion.  The current system works very
> well (Visa, Bank card networks), and the idea of allowing anonymous
> digital transactions is not something that any country in the world is
> keen to allow these days.

That's why it's called science _fiction._ :)