GNU Taler

GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system.[1][2] Taler is based on blind signatures rather than blockchain.[3]

GNU Taler
Developer(s)Christian Grothoff and Florian Dold
Repositorygit.taler.net
TypeMicrotransaction and electronic payment
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitetaler.net

The project is led by Florian Dold and Christian Grothoff[4] of Taler Systems SA. Taler is short for the "Taxable Anonymous Libre Economic Reserves"[5][6] and alludes to the Taler coins in Germany during the Early Modern period. It has vocal support from GNU Project founder Richard Stallman.[7] Stallman has described the program as "designed to be anonymous for the payer, but payees are always identified."[8] In a paper published in Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, GNU Taler is described as meeting ethical considerations - the paying customer is anonymous while the merchant is identified and taxable.[9][10] An implementation is provided by Taler Systems SA.[11][12]

See also
  •  Free and open-source software portal

References
  1. "GNU Taler 0.0.0 Released: GNU Tries To Get Into Electronic Payments".
  2. "GNU cryptocurrency aims at 'the mainstream economy not the black market'".
  3. "FAQ: How is Taler related to Bitcoin or Blockchains?".
  4. "GNU Taler: Ethical Online Payments for the Internet Age". ercim-news.ercim.eu. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  5. Sprint, Book (2016-05-19). Cost of Freedom. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-365-08698-4.
  6. "Halbanonymes Bezahlsystem: GNU Taler soll Kryptowährungen gerechter machen - Golem.de". www.golem.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
  7. "Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry".
  8. "A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe". 3 April 2018.
  9. Carlet, Claude; Hasan, M. Anwar; Saraswat, Vishal (2016-12-09). Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering: 6th International Conference, SPACE 2016, Hyderabad, India, December 14-18, 2016, Proceedings. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-49445-6.
  10. Dold, Florian (2019-02-25). The GNU Taler system : practical and provably secure electronic payments (phdthesis thesis). Université Rennes 1.
  11. Pentland, Alex 'Sandy'. "Digital cash and privacy: What are the alternatives to Libra?". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  12. "Kampf der Kryptowährungen – das sind die Alternativen zu Libra". www.netzwoche.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-03.
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