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diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.bib b/doc/paper/taler.bib index 5b6d9a5e3..5d59d31be 100644 --- a/doc/paper/taler.bib +++ b/doc/paper/taler.bib @@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ note = {\url{http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/701}}, } +@inproceedings{danezis2016rscoin, + author = {George Danezis and + Sarah Meiklejohn}, + title = {Centrally Banked Cryptocurrencies}, + booktitle = {23nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, {NDSS} + 2016, San Diego, California, USA, February 21-24, 2016}, + year = {2016}, + booktitle = {23nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, {NDSS} + 2016, San Diego, California, USA, February 21-24, 2016}, + publisher = {The Internet Society}, +} + @Misc{greece2015cash, author = {Reuters}, title = {Greek council recommends 60 euro limit on ATM withdrawals from Tuesday}, diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex index cb8577eb1..313954f3e 100644 --- a/doc/paper/taler.tex +++ b/doc/paper/taler.tex @@ -1485,6 +1485,13 @@ these experimental results show that computing-related business costs will only marginally contribute to the operational costs of the Taler payment system. +Scalability of the design is also not a concern, as the exchange's +database can be easily shareded over the different public keys as +desired. Similar to the RSCoin~\cite{danezis2016rscoin} design, this +ensures that conflicting transactions end up in the same shard, +enabling linear scalability of the database operations. Similarly, +the cryptographic verification in the frontend can be distributed over +as many compute nodes as required. \section{Discussion} |