Anonymous wrote: > > [Copied to Adam so he doesn't have to wait for some moderator to get > off his fat ass and approve it. And BTW permission is NOT granted to > forward this or any part of it to the DBS list because Hettinga is an > asshole who kicks people off his list for spite. He can piss in his > own sandbox if he wants but we don't have to play in it.] > > Adam Back wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:15:09AM +0200, Anonymous wrote: > > > First, off-line coins suck, as described above. [...] > > > > Off-line coins just offer an extra optional feature for the user, any > > user who chooses can instead use them as online coins. So I would > > argue off-line coins are better than online coins. > > It's not just an extra feature; an off-line system inherently requires > users to identify themselves to the bank at withdrawal time. It cannot > allow users to anonymously exchange coins at the bank. So it has an > inherent lack of anonymity which is not present in an online system.
If they withdraw blinded coins, then although they were identified they are not linked with the coins. Did I miss something? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
