Re: Questions about using gnunet to build an application

[Christian Grothoff]

On 10/20/22 17:26, Hendursaga wrote:
> > -   I saw in the docs that gnunet uses proof-of-work in a couple places (NSE 
> > and Revocation), would this work well on something like a smartphone? If not, 
> > are there alternatives in the works?
> There was a PhD position posted recently[2] concerning creating Taler wallets 
> that could work on embedded systems, and since GNU Taler is listed on the 
> applications page[3], presumably a smartphone could work, unless I'm missing 
> something.

We don't use PoW for payments, and sadly GNU Taler can't be used for the 
uses of PoW in NSE or Revocation. But, that said, our PoWs are also 
nowhere as expensive as those for cryptocurrencies ;-).