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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: New Money
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 12:38:44 EDT
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>Yes.  Ask him what the government is doing to research, prototype, or
>implement untraceable electronic money.  Adi Shamir seems to be
>producing about 10x as much useful results on this.  Maybe that's
>because Adi is 10x as interested in having a society where the movement
>of money (a.k.a. peoples' exercise of free choice in where they spend
>it) cannot be traced by the government.

For my money :-) the reason is that Adi is 10x as smart ...