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1 \chapter*{Acknowledgements} 2 3 The book is based on Florian Dold's PhD thesis. We have removed the parts that 4 are not crucial for GNU Taler. Also, unlike the thesis, the GNU Taler project 5 continues to be updated, so this books is expected to be kept up-to-date with 6 the latest developments. Nevertheless, Florian Dold's contribution to the 7 text remains fundamental. 8 9 We would like to thank Moritz Bartl for helping with the funding for Florian's 10 thesis and GNU Taler in general. Bruno Haible provided generous support for 11 the GNU Taler team to visit meetings of the W3C's Web Payment Working Group. 12 We also thank Ashoka, the Tor project and the Donaukurier for their support. 13 14 This work benefits from the financial support of the Brittany Region (ARED 15 9174) and the Renewable Freedom Foundation (RFF). 16 17 We thank the Bern University of Applied Sciences for continuing to host the 18 GNU Taler servers. 19 20 We thank to Cristina Onete and Jeff Burdges for their collaboration on the 21 provable security of GNU Taler. 22 23 We are grateful to the GNU project, in particular Richard Stallman, for their 24 support of this project. We also thank all GNUnet developers and GNU Guix 25 developers, especially Hartmut Goebel, Nils Gillmann, Gabor Toth, Ludovic 26 Courtès and Andreas Enge. 27