Payment Mechanisms
MacKie-Mason and White study:
- Identified ~30 characteristic features
- exchangeability, privacy, scalability, refutability, transaction costs, anonymity, …
- No size fits all: Each scheme makes design tradeoffs promoting some desirable characteristics at expense of others
- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/digidoll.pdf
U-PAI: Ketchpel et al. (Stanford)
- Generic interface to payment mechanisms
- http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/WP/get/SIDL-WP-1996-0039