Taler Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Bitcoin phisical bearer instrument using NFC JavaCards

  > Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom. As I understand it, the people developing GNU Taler, are trying to solve this problem and have come up with a promising system. https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• ELI5: Why did crypto (in general) plummet in the past year?

  GNU Taler is an example of the third possibility. If Bitcoin is "digital gold," Taler is digital banknotes. Source: over 1 year ago

• Cash must be king, Italy PM Giorgia Meloni tells shoppers

  You should check out GNU Taler[1]. Literally attempting to solve this problem. [1]: https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

  Beyond 2FA, some type of chaumian cash like https://taler.net/en/ might help too. But the problem is really downgrade attacks. There are multiple payment systems (bank wire, check, credit card ) and if there is one insecure way to make payments, then the whole system is broken. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• FOSS alternatives to Venmo or CashApp?

  GNU Taler comes to mind but the adoption is not there. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Crypto Is Crashing. Why Aren't Companies Acting Like It?

  GNU Taler? https://taler.net/en/ - Actually designed for payments - Doesn't use silly blockchain token nonsense - Allows for collecting taxes easily. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Web3 Is Centralized (and Inefficient)

  > There have been plenty of times that I didn't want to hand over my name and address for an online purchase, but the traditional payment systems aren't set up for privacy. Private payments can easily solved without a blockchain. For private payments you don't need a completely trust-less system. Taler[1] solves this quite elegantly: they provide completetly anonymous payments for the customer but still require... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Crypto Cities

  But you don't need cryptocurrencies for a local currency. In fact, you better not use one because you don't need the distributed part of it, and you definitely want to be able to control the money supply. A centralized electronic system or a paper-based system are all you need. Or maybe use Taler[1] if you want some cool tech with bleeding edge cryptography. [1]: https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Draft Senate Legislation Threatens to Impose More Crypto Reporting Requirements

  That is true, and I believe crypto will end up either occupying a quasi-(il)legal niche or superseded by something like Taler. Source: over 2 years ago

• PayPal Alternatives?

  I got an update: while asking the same question on Aether (OS social media, check it out), someone proposed the use of Taler. Seems buggy, but it's very recent as well, and it seems to be promising. Please let me know what you think. Source: about 3 years ago

• Blockchain-based and open source Digital Euro usage in Café

  How does this compare to GNU Taler[0] ? [0] https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago