article on Rivest and Micali's Peppercoin system
Steve Schear
s.schear at comcast.net
Thu Nov 20 16:59:36 PST 2003
At 11:37 AM 11/17/2003 -0500, Steve Bellovin <smb at research.att.com> wrote:
>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang1203.asp
A nice puff piece but it steers clear of well know, if not respected,
prognosticators that poo-poo any near-term potential for
micro-payments. Conspicuously absent is e-gold which predates all of the
listed vendors, does a daily average of $3 million in transactions,
relatively simple to use, requires no special end-user software and
internally cost effective enough to handle payments less than $0.01. It
seems e-gold has been smeared (unfairly I think) in the press as only
attracting gray market types.
steve
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