Money is about expected future value....nothing more, nothing less
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Thu Dec 5 10:41:21 PST 2002
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 10:31 AM, Tim May wrote:
> Swiss banks could take in and dispense from accounts without any
> identity credentials (the passwords and equivalents to signatures and
> chop marks) because of this basic point about Bayesian probability.
> Swiss banks were not trustworthy because they let customers examine
> their vaults, their computers (!), or who their owners were.
In rereading the first line here, I didn't mean to define identity
credentials as passwords and equivalents to signatures and chop marks.
Just the opposite.;
Identity credentials are taken to be biometric ID, or is-a-person
signed credentials, or other statements of legal and personal identy.
The passport of Timothy C. May, for example.
But a Swiss bank, pre-eunuch version, did not require passports or
credentials issued by the Vichy Government or Pol Pot or whomever. This
is what numbered accounts were all about.
(Perhaps some did, and this was their "right" to operate as they
wished.)
The core point is that identity credentials of the is-a-person sort
have nothing to do with banking and money in general.
--Tim May
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