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Re: First Virtual
>From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
>To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:08:26 -0400
>Subject: Re: First Virtual
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>> Does anybody know anything about a new company named "First Virtual"? I
>> know they got NSB from BellCore and a couple of other researchers.
>
>nsb will be giving an invited talk at the winter '95 usenix conference in new
>orleans.
>
>Speaker: Nathanial Borenstein
>Affiliation: First Virtual
>Abstract: Traditional approaches to introducing commerce to the Internet focus
>on using the Internet to facilitate the sale of goods and services. However,
>these approaches require either encryption or a closed system in order to
>safeguard payment. By restricting our focus to information commerce --
>transactions not involving physical goods or service -- we can radically
>simplify the underlying commerce model, with extremely important consequences
>for the usability and democracy of the Internet's payment infrastructure.
>
>http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/honey/usenix.htm has general info on the winter
>'95 usenix conference.
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> peter
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