"I have been working on ideas to display the information in digital cash in some other way that is more esthetic. It would be nice if the display somehow only worked for correctly signed cash notes, with forged cash not displaying anything nice."
— Hal Finney (The Beauty of ECash, 1994)
#digitalcash #cryptography
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