Robert Hettinga, is a technical and political writer with a focus on

financial cryptography Financial cryptography is the use of cryptography in applications in which financial loss could result from subversion of the message system. Financial cryptography is distinguished from traditional cryptography in that for most of recorded history, ...

. Robert was well known for his postings on the

Cypherpunk A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change. The cypherpunk movement originated in the late 1980s and gained traction with th ...

and e$ and e$pam mailing list and founded the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation (IBUC). Robert was also one of the founders of the world's first conference on financial cryptography, FC97, on the island of

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References

* "Digital Bearer Settlement" - April 1998 * "The Geodesic Market" - June 1998 * "How to Underwrite a Digital Bearer Security"- July 1998 * "'All the bonds in Christendom': Digital Bearer Bonds"- September 1998 * "Russell's Revenge: Digital Bearer Equity"- October 1998 * "Digital bearer derivatives - mathematics of polite fiction" - November 1998 * "One-Way Hash and Micromoney Mitochondria: Digital Bearer Micropayment"- December 1998 * "Hit 'em where they ain't': deploying digital bearer transactions"- February 1999 * "Internet bearer underwriting: it's time"- April 1999 * "Endpiece: How to build a bearer underwriting revenue model"- May 1999 * "How will the regulators work in the new net economy?"- July 1999 * "Divine Providence - Internet content without transfer pricing"- September 1999 * "The Geodesic Economy" - December 1999

External links

Robert Hettinga and Digital Bearer SettlementFinancial Cryptography 97InfoWorld: Opendoc unleashed on the Internet 11/6/1995

Hetting's RantsThe Geodesic EconomyMac Crypto Workshop 1996
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