"Using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous 'digital cash,' it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given."
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#encryption #digitalcash #anonymity #privacy
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