Series III · Card 13 of 21 · THE MAILING LIST
The difference between a bad electronic cash system and well-developed digital cash will determine whether we will have a dictatorship or a real democracy.
DAVID CHAUM · INTERVIEW · 1996
Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.
Source
Interview 1996 in Honeywell-Bull’s customer magazine; quoted from “How DigiCash Blew Everything”, Next! (English translation by Robert Hettinga, cryptography@c2.net, 10 February 1999)
About the author
American cryptographer and pioneer of digital cash. Best known for eCash and for foundational work on blind signatures, which shaped the path toward digital money long before Bitcoin.
The question on the back
How much say do you have in the rules of your money?