<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Vincenzo lozzo</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Joichi Ito</td></tr><tr><td>Cc:</td><td>jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Mondex &amp; MintChip</td></tr></table>

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