Anonymous Credit

[Ben Laurie]

Pete Chown wrote:
> 
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> > BTW, what sort of value payments are these intended to be (coz my
> > calculations over a year ago indicated that you could use Wagner-blinded
> > signatures down to .01p easily and I expect that has improved)?
> 
> The idea is that the units are released one at a time when a phone
> call is made while roaming.  The root would be signed by the user's
> home telco.
> 
> The point is that when a phone call goes from one minute to two
> minutes or whatever, another unit is released.  You couldn't do that
> with Wagner blinding, because you would have to know the costs of the
> calls you were going to make in advance.

Eh? No, you would just release coins at appropriate moments.

Cheers,

Ben.

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