Friday, October 3, 2025

Old Jellyback

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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> said:

>Nah, wouldn't work.  Think about it.  The person running an AP bot would
>have to remain anonymous; digicash is not payee (recipient) anonymous --
>the payer can collude with the bank to obtain the identity of the
>recipient, if the recipient ever cashes the money.

>The first and only payer would be a Fed who would then go to the bank and
>try to coerce or blackmail them with bad PR to get them to id the
>operator and recipient account holder.
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