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The user keeps the meter: what changed in v1.3.0
From v1.2.0 (2026-10-21, e1df4631e) to v1.3.0 (2026-10-21, 66d2d429f), paragraph by paragraph.
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• It is a proposal.proposal, Nothingon hereparts that run.** The billing vault is not built yet,yet; the meter and the openaccount questionsin arethe writtenreader's down.vault are.
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A metermeter, and an account in the reader's browser.own vault.** This newsroom already charges per use, without a server keeping the balance: every reader starts with £5 of credit, each page draws a few pence from it, the credit is kept in the reader's browser, and the balance can go below zero until they top up with a £5 payment link, live since 11 October. I wrote about why in paying after the value. The account is kept in the browser and, when the reader opens their vault with a passkey, carried into it: one file per device, a balance consolidated across devices, and a lane that browsers without the passkey can write to. What is not built is the check: the page a payment returns to adds the credit, and does not verify it. The reading account, as built lists every piece.
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• NothingThe herebilling vault is not built.** Neither user.sgit.ai nor billing.sgit.ai exists yet.yet, and payments are not yet checked or signed; the meter and the reading account in the reader's vault are, as the reading account, as built lists.
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