At 8:56 AM -0800 3/7/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >Sure you will, if the groceries are in front of you, and the purchase or > >possession of some of them you don't want associated with anything. >In this case the reputation of the grocer and/or your ability to assay >the >groceries (in meatspace) suffice.
Right. More to the point, the only person you trust in a bearer transaction is the underwriter, who, of course, can be a persistent pseudonym. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
