- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:04:38 -0400
- To: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- CC: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
On 04/09/2014 02:30 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote: > To give an example of the degree of headache: in 1978, > the Bank of Montreal was shipping dollar $5 bills and had an accident > where the truck transporting the bills burned. The legal case went to > the Supreme Court and question was whether or not the Bank of Canada > should re-issue the those $5 bills. Are these bill "money itself" or > are they "promissory notes" for the money? The result was a Supreme > Court split decision 3-3. An interesting case synopsys is here: > http://www.rdo-olr.uottawa.ca/index2.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=dd_download&fid=891&Itemid=842 Fixed: https://github.com/web-payments/minutes/commit/d07cc5c439b4062f8e8051b47754149df7925678 Updated text is here: https://web-payments.org/minutes/2014-04-09/#31 -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
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