DBS Symposium: Going once? Going twice?

Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:16:52 -0500

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March 8, 1999
Boston, Massachusetts

If you're planning on coming, or even speaking :-), to the Philodox
Symposium on Digital Bearer Applications, please sign up on the
registration page, <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html> now.

We haven't had a lot of interest so far, but we're still willing to
have it anyway, if enough people are interested.

If not, we'll try to arrange another meeting of the clan some other
time when it's more convenient for everyone.

Since I'm currently involved in writing -- and, hopefully, selling --
a business plan for an internet bearer underwriting corporation,
called, oddly enough, The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation,
it may be a blessing in disguise if we don't hold the Symposium just
yet, as I'll get to write on and evangelize the idea a bit more than
I would otherwise.

Even more fun, for the Corporation's first product, MicroMint-based
microcash, I'm looking at buying the equivalent of a financial
cryptography supercomputer, something I'm calling an underwriting
engine. So, I will shortly find myself, much to my everlasting shame
:-) -- and to the equal glee of Vin McLelland, I'm sure -- looking
for institutional-level venture funding for the project.

Anyway, there would certainly be more bandwidth at a symposium on
digital bearer settlement than you would find on the various email
lists, and things really *are* heating up lately, what with some kind
of bankruptcy hearing on DigiCash soon (this month?), the Marc
Briceno syndicate's offer for the DigiCash IP portfolio, with Ron
Rivest and Adi Shamir saying that "Deep Crack" is really a MicroMint
engine in disguise, and so forth. There's even a group of us kicking
around a possible IETF, or maybe just guerillanet(?),
bandwidth-for-cash protocol we're calling "paypacket", all of which
we can talk about, in detail, at the Harvard Club on March 25th and
26th.

Anyway, as always, it's your call. If I get, say, 12 people signed up
for the Symposium by midnight tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9, I won't, in
the immortal words of Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre(?), "shoot this
kitten" :-), and we'll have the Symposium. Otherwise, some other
time, then.

The registration page is
<http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html>.

Cheers,
Robert Hettinga,
Founder,
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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