marketing

Marketing materials (presentations, posters, flyers)
Log | Files | Refs

2024-find.tex (7926B)

      1 \documentclass[aspectratio=169,t]{beamer}
      2 \input taler-macros
      3 \usepackage{eurosym}
      4 \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
      5 \newcommand{\TITLE}{NEXT \\ GENERATION \\ INTERNET}
      6 \newcommand{\SUB}{From academia to impact}
      7 \newcommand{\AUTHOR}{Christian Grothoff}
      8 \newcommand{\SPEAKER}{Christian Grothoff}
      9 \newcommand{\INST}{Bern University of Applied Sciences}
     10 \newcommand{\DATE}{Workshop FIND Academia + Innosuisse}
     11 
     12 % Do not edit this part
     13 \title{\TITLE}
     14 \subtitle{\SUB}
     15 \date{\DATE}
     16 \author[\SPEAKER]{\AUTHOR}
     17 \institute{\INST}
     18 
     19 % 15 minutes
     20 \begin{document}
     21 
     22 \begin{frame}[plain]
     23 \maketitle
     24 \end{frame}
     25 
     26 \begin{frame}{What is Taler?}
     27   \framesubtitle{\url{https://taler.net/en/features.html}}  \noindent
     28 Taler is
     29   \vfill
     30   \begin{itemize}
     31     \item a Free/Libre software \emph{payment system} infrastructure project
     32     \item ... with a surrounding software ecosystem
     33     \item ... and a company (Taler Systems S.A.) and community that wants to deploy it
     34       as widely as possible.
     35   \end{itemize}
     36   \vfill
     37 \noindent
     38  However, Taler is
     39   \begin{itemize}
     40     \item \emph{not} a currency or speculative asset
     41     \item \emph{not} a long-term store of value
     42     \item \emph{not} a network or instance of a system
     43     \item \emph{not} decentralized
     44     \item \emph{not} based on proof-of-work or proof-of-stake
     45   \end{itemize}
     46 \end{frame}
     47 
     48 
     49 \begin{frame}{Design principles}
     50   \framesubtitle{https://taler.net/en/principles.html}
     51 GNU Taler must ...
     52 \begin{enumerate}
     53   \item {... be implemented as {\bf free software}.}
     54   \item {... protect the {\bf privacy of buyers}.}
     55   \item {... enable the state to {\bf tax income} and crack down on
     56     illegal business activities.}
     57   \item {... prevent payment fraud.}
     58   \item {... only {\bf disclose the minimal amount of information
     59     necessary}.}
     60   \item {... be usable.}
     61   \item {... be efficient.}
     62   \item {... avoid single points of failure.}
     63   \item {... foster {\bf competition}.}
     64 \end{enumerate}
     65 \end{frame}
     66 
     67 
     68 \begin{frame}{Origins}
     69   \begin{description}
     70     \item[2001] Cryptography couse @ Purdue: GNUnet package started
     71     \item[2007] GNU libmicrohttpd package started
     72     \item[2009] Emmy Noether: Free Software Network Security Group
     73     \item[2011] Florian Dold joins Free Software Network Security Group
     74     \item[2013] P2P Course @ TUM: Florian solves giving change,
     75                 first encounter with Leon Schumacher in Z\"urich
     76     \item[2014] Nominated Ashoka fellow, joint move to Inria Rennes
     77     \item[2015] Inria approves Taler start-up
     78     \item[2016] Taler Systems SA founded in Luxembourg
     79     \item[2017] First investor from Switzerland; move to BFH
     80     \item[2019] Florian defends PhD on the GNU Taler System
     81     \item[2020] Second investor from Switzerland
     82   \end{description}
     83 \end{frame}
     84 
     85 
     86 \begin{frame}{Funding struggles...}
     87   \begin{itemize}
     88 %  \item Renewable Freedom Foundation
     89   \item Horizon 2020: Next Generation Internet % 400k?
     90   \item PrototypeFund % 100k
     91   \item \sout{SNF}
     92   \item \sout{InnoSuisse}
     93   \item \sout{Venture Kick}
     94   \item SovereignTechFund\footnote{For GNU libmicrohttpd} % 300k
     95   \end{itemize}
     96   \begin{center}
     97     $\approx$ 2.5M from investors, $\approx$ 1.5M from grants
     98   \end{center}
     99   {\tiny Grants {\em slow} you down, grant applications are {\em risky},
    100     but success can keep you {\em alive} and add {\em breadth}.}
    101 \end{frame}
    102 
    103 
    104 \begin{frame}{Present: NGI TALER PILOT}
    105 \framesubtitle{\url{https://taler.net/en/consortium.html}}
    106 
    107  \begin{itemize}
    108     \item EU Project started December 2023 to deploy GNU Taler
    109     \item 3 financial institutions (GLS Bank, Magnet Bank, Visual Vest),
    110           2 academic institutions (Berner FH, TU Eindhoven), 3 SMEs (Taler Systems SA, Code Blau GmbH, Petit Singularites), 3 non-profits (NLnet Foundation, E-Seniors Association, Homo Digitalis)
    111     \item $\approx$ \EUR 5M budget over 3 years
    112     \item Objective: {\bf Deploy GNU Taler in Europe}
    113   \end{itemize}
    114 \end{frame}
    115 
    116 
    117 \begin{frame}{Launch Timeline}
    118   \begin{description}
    119     \item[Q2'2022] Internal deployment at BFH
    120     \item[Q3'2024] Deployment of local currency Netzbon in Basel
    121     \item[Q4'2024] Public deployment of eCHF stablecoin in Switzerland, cleared by FINMA
    122     \item[Q1'2025] GLS bank launches in Eurozone
    123     \item[Q3'2025] Magnet bank launches in Hungary
    124   \end{description}
    125 \end{frame}
    126 
    127 
    128 \begin{frame}{CH: Good Things \& Bad Things}
    129   \begin{itemize}
    130     \item[+] Sane KYC limits: 2500 CHF/month, 15000 CHF/year
    131     \item[+] Sandbox rule: no banking license up to 1M CHF in assets
    132     \item[+] Support by BFH faculty and staff
    133     \item[+] Support by SERI once EU funding was in place
    134     \item[-] Banks: reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject, reject,
    135       \pause over-promise and {\bf 22'000 CHF/year plus 0.50 CHF/transaction plus more fees}.
    136   \end{itemize}
    137 \end{frame}
    138 
    139 
    140 \begin{frame}{How to support?}
    141   \begin{center}
    142     {\bf De-risk grant applications: \\ short application, negotiate milestones post-approval}
    143   \end{center}
    144   \begin{description}
    145     \item[Join:] {\small \url{https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/taler}}
    146     \item[Discuss:] \url{https://ich.taler.net/}
    147     \item[Report:] \url{https://bugs.taler.net/},
    148     \item[Develop:] \url{https://git.taler.net/}
    149     \item[Apply:] \url{https://nlnet.nl/taler}
    150     \item[Translate:] \url{https://weblate.taler.net/}, \url{translation-volunteer@taler.net}
    151     \item[Integrate:] \url{https://docs.taler.net/}
    152   \end{description}
    153 \end{frame}
    154 
    155 
    156 \begin{frame}
    157 \frametitle{Do you have any questions?}
    158 \vfill
    159 References:
    160 {\tiny
    161   \begin{enumerate}
    162  \item{Özgür Kesim, Christian Grothoff, Florian Dold and Martin Schanzenbach.
    163       {\em Zero-Knowledge Age Restriction for GNU Taler}.
    164        {\bf 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2022}.}
    165  \item{David Chaum, Christian Grothoff and Thomas Moser.
    166        {\em How to issue a central bank digital currency}.
    167        {\bf SNB Working Papers, 2021}.}
    168  \item{Christian Grothoff, Bart Polot and Carlo von Loesch.
    169        {\em The Internet is broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a GNU Network}.
    170        {\bf W3C/IAB Workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)}, 2014.}
    171  \item{Jeffrey Burdges, Florian Dold, Christian Grothoff and Marcello Stanisci.
    172        {\em Enabling Secure Web Payments with GNU Taler}.
    173        {\bf SPACE 2016}.}
    174  \item{Florian Dold, Sree Harsha Totakura, Benedikt M\"uller, Jeffrey Burdges and Christian Grothoff.
    175        {\em Taler: Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves}.
    176        Available upon request. 2016.}
    177  \item{Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer and Madars Virza.
    178        {\em Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin}.
    179        {\bf IEEE Symposium on Security \& Privacy, 2016}.}
    180  \item{David Chaum, Amos Fiat and Moni Naor.
    181        {\em Untraceable electronic cash}.
    182        {\bf Proceedings on Advances in Cryptology, 1990}.}
    183   \item{Phillip Rogaway.
    184        {\em The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work}.
    185        {\bf Asiacrypt}, 2015.} \label{bib:rogaway}
    186 \end{enumerate}
    187 }
    188 \end{frame}
    189 
    190 
    191 % This should be last...
    192 \begin{frame}{Acknowledgements}
    193 
    194   \begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth} \ \\
    195     {\tiny Funded by the European Union (Project 101135475).}
    196 
    197     \begin{center}
    198       \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{../bandera.jpg}
    199     \end{center}
    200   \end{minipage}
    201   \hfill
    202   \begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
    203     {\tiny Funded by SERI (HEU-Projekt 101135475-TALER).}
    204 
    205     \begin{center}
    206       \includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{../sbfi.jpg}
    207     \end{center}
    208   \end{minipage}
    209 
    210   \vfill
    211 
    212   {\tiny
    213 
    214     Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only
    215     and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the
    216     European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for
    217     them.
    218 
    219   }
    220 \end{frame}
    221 
    222 \end{document}