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We present a new micropayment scheme based on the use of “electronic lottery tickets.” This scheme is exceptionally efficient since the bank handles only winning tickets, instead of handling each micropayment.
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Rivest, R.L. (1997). Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments. In: Hirschfeld, R. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63594-7_87
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