From: Vincenzo lozzo Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24 PM To: Joichi Ito Cc: jeffrey E. Subject: Mondex & MintChip I was doing a bit of backtracking in the history of digital currencies =nd these two popped up. Both of them failed and were govt backed, =rying to devise if the problem was the govt backing or the fact that the real 'economy'/user base doesn't really want to =dapt to a digital currency. If the answer is the latter that kind of =peaks to the value of bitcoin too Thoughts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip http://cryptome.org/jya/mondex-chip.htm 1 EFTA_R1_01312555 EFTA02343959