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authorFlorian Dold <florian.dold@gmail.com>2018-08-24 04:53:09 +0200
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-\chapter{Introduction}
+\chapter{Introduction}\label{chapter:introduction}
The design of payment systems shapes economies and societies. Strong,
developed nation states have adopted highly transparent payment systems, such
@@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ Mention GDPR, data minimization
blockchain + e-cash/taler as full-stack payment system that can be deployed by everybody
+% FIXME: say why it's "GNU Taler", GNU project context
+
% FIXME: demo walk-through of GNU Taler as user
% FIXME: give the whole blind sigatures as carbon paper signing analogy
+% FIXME: dependency graph between chapters
+
\section{Requirement for Payment Systems}
(Discuss different requirements, stress that payment systems are typically
used as stacks of multiple systems, and that no one size fits all)
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ Or: Why another payment system?
\item \textbf{GNU Taler must foster competition.}
\end{enumerate}
-\section{Walkthrough of a GNU Taler Payment}
+\section{Making a Payment with GNU Taler}
\section{Features of E-Cash}
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ Electronic Cash with Anonymous User Suspension
(Ecash vs off-line recovery)
FIXME: discuss ways to handle extortion / perfect crime / kidnapping
-\subsection{Fair Exchange}
+\subsection{Atomic Swaps}
\section{Contributions}
@@ -100,3 +104,5 @@ Thesis statement: Permissioned blockchains and income-transparent e-cash can be
\section{Roadmap}
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