- From: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:50:17 -0400
- To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
RE: "pretty significant, at first glance" Agree, but on second glance, not so much. What was repealed was California Corporations Code Section 107, which reads as follows: "107. No corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association or individual shall issue or put in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States." http://law.onecle.com/california/corporations/107.html http://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB129/2013 http://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB129/2013 I ran the following semantic experiment in my cranium: Express the repeal of a negative rule, by stating it in the positive: "Any corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association or individual may issue or put in circulation, as money, anything." I wonder if THAT logical counterpart would have passed into law? It certainly then leads to the following dialogue: As what? As money. What's that mean in law? It remains unfortunately ambiguous that this new legal scenario in Calif says nothing about what units contracts & payments within Calif. can be expressed in and settled in, if the terms are to be legally enforceable on the same basis as contracts & payments expressed in USD. I reckon that the only directly enforceable unit remains "the lawful money of the United States". The repeal has only to do with "issuing" not "use". Do all Calif. vendors now NEED to specify WHICH units of account they are willing to accept? (i.e. Exactly this is enabled simply in my Paris proposal for the W3C Web Payments Spec: The payment solution would default to national currency, but can be expanded by the seller to offer some payment unit choices to the buyer.) Otherwise the seller MUST accept "as money" the load of firewood that Fred is offering? Hardly! What this Calif repeal means I reckon is: "Issue whatever you like; the only enforceable payment unit remains USD." Joseph Potvin On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 1 July 2014 18:16, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> www.cnet.com/news/california-governor-signs-bill-legalizing-bitcoin-other-digital-currencies > > > I think this is actually pretty significant, at first glance. > > Hopefully now digital and paper currencies can compete on a relatively level > playing field, with each showing pros and cons. > >> >> >> -- >> Sometimes I imply things, or include important information in pictures. >> Without a request for clarification, I will assume I was clear, which can >> cause later problems when I wasn't. So please ask me to clarify anything >> that seems ambiguous. Doing so is not rude. Thank you. >> > -- Joseph Potvin Operations Manager | Gestionnaire des opérations The Opman Company | La compagnie Opman jpotvin@opman.ca Mobile: 819-593-5983
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