Re: Introduction / Taler

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 16:48 +0200, Adrian Hope-Bailie wrote:
> I'd also be very interested to figure out how Taler and the
> Interledger protocol (http://interledger.org) may compliment one
> another.

I'll check it out later this week, thanks.  

We've focused almost exclusively on web payments so far, but there are
several ways to build an escrow service using Taler's existing payments
and refund operations.  

There is interesting approach where one adds a blinded arbitrator key
to the deposit API : Arbitrator need not learn that they were the
arbitrator unless something goes wrong.  Mint never learns the identity
of the arbitrator, not even when processing a refund.  It's advantage
lies in allowing coin for coin exchanges to be both escrowed and hidden
from the mints while working in in Taler's asymmetric anonymity model.

Jeff