Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> o Most of them have an IR port and many contain enough storage and
> horsepower to keep and play small MP3 collections. Chaumian digital cash
> code should fit easily. Hell, some companies are already making noises
> about full-motion
Quoting Trei, Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> The phone SW world is nowhere near as closed as you think.
>
> * Thousands of developers are writing Java applets for Japanese iMode
> phones.
> * Hundreds are developing applets for the Blackberry 5810 and 5820 phones
> (free Java-based IDS from RIM).
Quoting James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> James A. Donald:
> > > When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for
> > > most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens
> > > inside smartcards.
>
> Someone:
> > Here i
> Steve Thompson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned cell-phones as a digital cash
> platform.
> Perhaps this belabours the obvious, but I'll spell it out anyways:
>
> o They are ubiquitous.
>
> o Most of them have an IR port and many contain enough st
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On 30 Jan 2050 at 32:210, Steve Thompson wrote:
> I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned cell-phones as a
> digital cash platform.[]
>
> The problem is that phone software is (to my knowledge) all
> closed-source and running on proprietary hardware. What's
> the liklihood of manufact
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James A. Donald:
> > When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for
> > most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens
> > inside smartcards. However, because of the critical mass
> > problem, initial deployment for small payments cannot rely
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ill have to stash all unused tokens inside
> smartcards. However, because of the critical mass problem,
> initial deployment for small payments cannot rely on such
> means, though initial deployment for large payments could.
Here in Hong Kong, contactless "Octopus" smartcards (based
