# kaal:claim:3128900-031

**Claim.** The payment design allows secure off chain payments without gas consumption, with settlement transferred onto the Ethereum blockchain at a later date, which the author claims is superior to the payment channel approach used by decentralized competitors.

**Type.** design  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- payments among requesters, workers, and verifiers

**Source quote.**

> It allows for secure off chain payments without using gas before transferring those payments on the ETHEREUM blockchain at a later date.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 3.4 Payment System, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** off-chain-payments, gas-costs, payment-channels, ethereum

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