Dissens: Decentralized Identities for Self-Sovereign End-Users (NGI Trust)

> DISSENS integrates re:claimID with the GNU Taler payment system in a pilot in order to demonstrate the practical feasibility and benefits of privacy enhancing technologies for users and commercial service providers.

> Finally, both re:claimID as the SSI system as well as Taler do not suffer from the usual predicament Blockchain-based systems find themselves in: Both systems do not require a decentralized, public ledger. This eliminates the need for consensus mechanisms, which do not scale and are ecologically unsustainable.

> re:claimID builds on top of the GNU Name System, which makes use of a DHT, an efficient (O(log n)) peer-to-peer data structure. For payments, GNU Taler uses centralized infrastructure operated by audited and regulated exchange providers and facilitates account-less end-to-end interactions between customers and services where all parties have O(1) transaction costs.