On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:27:18 -0500 grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://taler.net/ > > Taler technology: About taxability, change and privacy > > One of the key goals of Taler is to provide anonymity for citizens > buying goods and services, while ensuring that the state can observe > incoming transactions to ensure businesses engage only in legal > activities Stupid cunts. These 'gnu' monkeys are hopeless. > and do not evade taxes (such as income tax, sales tax or > value-added tax). However, we also want to stay out of the immediate > personal domain, so sharing funds within a family or copying coins > between devices should not be subject to monitoring by the state. > > In Taler terminology, we distinguish between transactions where the > exclusive ownership of the value of a coin is passed from one entity > to another, and sharing whereafter control over a coin is shared by > multiple electronic wallets (which may belong to different > individuals). In Taler, the receiver of a transaction is visible to > the state and thus can be taxed, while sharing is invisible to anyone > not involved. Once a coin is shared among different individuals, any > one of those can try to spend it, but only the first spender would > succeed. Thus, sharing requires a strong trust relationship among the > individuals involved, and thus represent interactions in the protected > immediate personal domain, and not commercial transactions. > > When Taler needs to provide change, for example because a customer > only has a 5 Euro coin but wants to make a 2 Euro purchase, it needs > to create fresh coins (of a total value of 3 Euros) that are > unlinkable to the original 5 Euro coin to ensure privacy. To ensure > that the resulting refresh operation where the change is converted to > fresh coins cannot be used to transfer funds from one entity to > another, Taler ensures that any owner of an original coin that was > involved in a refresh operation can follow a link to the private > information of the fresh coins generated by the operation. As a result > of this trick, refresh operations cannot be used to create transfers, > as the linkage ensures that the fresh coins are always shared with the > owner of the original coin. > > As a result, Taler does not intrude into the personal economic domain, > offers good privacy, taxability for transactions and the ability to > give change.
