GNU Taler begins operating in Switzerland, distributed by the Taler Operations AG. Gnu Taler aims to be a “digital wallet” and has been used by the swiss national bank as well as the european national bank as a example for how a digital currency handed out by the state could work. It aims to be as privacy preserving as cash for the buyer while not allowing the seller to evade taxes.
Currently the Taler is brought out by a special organisation, the “Taler Operations AG”, and not the national bank, although both the national bank as well as the Taler Team have shown interest in a official digial currency by the national bank based on the Taler. But we need to relativate as the national council has stated that the introduction of a digital currency would probably take relatively major legislative changes and therefore take a bit of time.
Never thought I’d see the day when Taler was released. Can’t wait to do payments with other Talerable vendors and leave the Intalerable payment methods behind!
Been following Taler since bitcoint got hijacked by bad actors and excited to see it grow!
Important: Taler is not like Bitcoin! It’s not its own currency! 1 Taler will always be exactly 1CHF. It’s not a currency to apeculate own but strictly a way to digitally and privately store and spend your CHFs.
If that’s what you want then the Taler is an amazing thing.
If you want something to invest money into, stick to other crypto coins :)
I’m perfectly aware of what Taler is and never said it’s a crypto currency. I does fulfill the same use case of corruption resistant digital money as original bitcoin.
Sadly, it still requires a Swiss bank for merchants. More visa/stripe than Btc. “ Prerequisites Here is what you need to get started to integrate Taler as a payment option into your payment process: Swiss bank account, ideally with support for EBICS 🔗. Taler merchant backend 🔗 configured with your Swiss IBAN number.”
I’m honestly surprised that it’s possible already, I thought we’d be years away until it’s actually usable.
european national bank
The what now?
swiss national bank and european central bank, my bad ;P
Is this for real ‽ Am I dreaming ‽ Someone pinch me
I like the name too, it’s very fitting
if this works globally then I’m finally ditching PayPal. Hallelujah!
How will that company make money? What’s their game plan?
How will that company make money?
It doesn’t want to. The Taler is a project by the university in Bern and the FOSS Group GNU to make a new, independent, free currency that is run by your national bank (or central bank in case you use the Euro) and independent from any corporations like banks, credit cards or payment providers like Paypal. Its purpose is to remove companies that make money from transactions from the circle.
The company here only wants to serve as a proof of concept that the Taler can work to get the swiss national bank to adopt it themselves. Their whole goal is to make themselves obsolete and not to make any money.
Hope that clears it up ^^
Currency? I thought it was a payments handler to rival Visa and MasterCard.
1 Taler is always 1 CHF, no matter what happens. So it isn’t its own currency, but the Taler is a digital version/representation of the Frank you put in. Also it’s more similar to a digital cash wallet than a payment handler, but it’s definitely a rival to Visa and Mastercard.
Government contract it appears
Copying the comment I left further up with u/plutonicacid because I’ml lazy
How will that company make money?
It doesn’t want to. The Taler is a project by the university in Bern and the FOSS Group GNU to make a new, independent, free currency that is run by your national bank (or central bank in case you use the Euro) and independent from any corporations like banks, credit cards or payment providers like Paypal. Its purpose is to remove companies that make money from transactions from the circle.
The company here only wants to serve as a proof of concept that the Taler can work to get the swiss national bank to adopt it themselves. Their whole goal is to make themselves obsolete and not to make any money.
Hope that clears it up ^^
