From:	Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject:	Cash, Credit and Crime
Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:55:41 EDT

In a message dated 6/30/99 6:57:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
gyro@********.co.za writes:

> The point I was trying to make is that Organised Crime moves hundreds
> of thousands of units of BTL and flesh every <insert time period> It
> would be tough to explain to the bank manager when you show up with
> wheelbarrows full of certsticks. :) I presume that those credswipers
> you mention would'nt be able to tranfer funds without the codes needed
> to ID the original account they came from. Banking systems today work
> in much the same way and I can only see the level of paranoid tracking
> increasing in the 2050's and 60's

Not true. Certified credsticks are the equivalent of bearer bonds. The only
information linked to them is the balance in the account. Nor does a stick
to stick transfer neccecarily keep any of that information, just that you
paid X cred to someone else and therefore you dont have it.

Why? because Megacorps own the banks and they want to be able to keep their
hands clean.