Lightning Talks: GNU Taler
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An electronic cash system that works over existing banks and currencies, using withdrawable cryptographic coins from an exchange and merchant deposits back to banks, claiming anonymous users while keeping merchants taxable merchants. Implements proven crypto libraries, ships as a GNU package under GPL/LGPL/AGPL, supports SGD INR and bitcoin rails, enables micropayments with no mining waste, provides receipts and backupable wallets, runs live at demo.taler.net and requires no special bank software.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:20What is GNU Taler?
- 0:50How does Taler work?
- 1:09How does it work?
- 1:20View as private Customer
- 2:14View as commercial Merchant
- 3:37View as taxing Government
- 4:20Go on...
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