From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject:	Cash, Credit and Crime
Date:	Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:33:14 -0700 (PDT)

> > You wouldn't BELIEVE the little essay I just typed up to explain
all this - and then lost. Fragging machines.
>
> If your computer asks you "Are you sure?", you read the rest of the
question thoroughly before clicking on any buttons :)

Smartass. :)

> > Firstly, each credstick is colour-coded. It can only have a maximum
amount of money on it that the coding says it can. If you only want a
stick for 1k, the bank won't give you an ebony stick (which can handle
1 million, or 5 million or something like that). I reckon it'd also
have a minimum to prevent someone from getting 5001 nuyen on a 10k
stick and jacking it up to that 10k mark.
>
> Those only make it slightly more difficult, and reduce the profit
margins involved, but they certainly don't make it impossible to forge
money by "creating" it on a certified credstick.

True - it's the rest that makes it nigh impossible.

> > Secondly, credsticks aren't designed to create money. They only
transfer it. As I said, it's called double-entry accounting. For each
credit to your stick, there has to be an equal debit somewhere else.
>
> It seems to me that this method is more cumbersome than linking an
account to the credstick and treating it as any other (person-linked)
account with associated credstick.
> Gurth@******.nl

Cumbersome, yes, but that ain't the point. The POINT is to have
traceless money. Why else would you have something like that? I mean,
really - all anyone would have to do to create a total police state
would be to create the credstick concept and NOT have certified
credsticks or hard cash. Certified credsticks allow corps and
governments and other such people to do naughty things without being
caught, and that doesn't exactly work with your account-linked concept,
Gurth.

So, sure, this may be more cumbersome, but it's a hell of a lot better
from a runner's (or a runner-hiring-corp's) point of view.

*Doc' creates the combination credstick/dildo, and...errr...no, better
leave that alone...*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

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