From: Vincenzo lozzo
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24 PM
To: Joichi Ito
Cc: jeffrey E.
Subject: Mondex & MintChip
I was doing a bit of backtracking in the history of digital currencies =nd these two popped up. Both of them failed and
were govt backed, =rying to devise if the problem was the govt backing or the fact that the real 'economy'/user base
doesn't really want to =dapt to a digital currency. If the answer is the latter that kind of =peaks to the value of bitcoin
too
Thoughts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip
http://cryptome.org/jya/mondex-chip.htm
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