<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vessenes</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have time for a full write up of this system yet, and a paper would be really great.&lt;p&gt;That said, here are to me the most salient points:&lt;p&gt;* Exchanges (essentially banks in Taler) must have external auditing; there are no in-built technology mechanisms for noticing or defeating over-issuance&lt;p&gt;* HTTP&amp;#x2F;HTTPS focused -- this is intended to be an API-layer tool&lt;p&gt;* Token based, so you could use it with any system you want&lt;p&gt;* Government audit friendly -- it tries for high levels of privacy for users and almost none for merchants as a conscious decision to be bad for money laundering.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Taler 0.0.0 released</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2016-06/msg00014.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>&amp;gt;Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can learn their citizen&amp;#x27;s total income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes&lt;p&gt;Wow, what a feature ...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Taler 0.0.0 released</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2016-06/msg00014.html</url></story>