Background
This "toy" website provides you with the ability to
experience using the Taler payment system without using
valuable currency. Here, we guide you through the steps
of installing a Taler wallet, withdrawing Taler coins and
spending them at a merchant. For this demonstrator, we
will be using a "toy" currency, KUDOS. However, please note that
Taler is designed to work with ordinary currencies, such
as Dollars or Euros, not just toy currencies.
Step 1: Installing the Taler wallet
First, you need to install the Taler wallet browser extension.
It is currently only available for Firefox. If you run
Firefox, simply click here
to download and install the extension. You will have to
click on "allow" and "install" dialogs shown by Firefox.
After that, the Taler logo should appear on the right side
of your navigation bar.
Step 1: Installing the Taler wallet
Congratulations, you have installed the wallet correctly.
You can now proceed with the next steps.
Step 2: Performing a wire transfer
The next step is to transfer currency to the mint to
obtain Taler coins. This is typically done using a
wire transfer. However, as this is just a demonstrator,
we will allow you to send the mint KUDOS coins using a simple
form on this website instead.
You begin by clicking on the Taler icon and selecting
"Create reserve". The extension will then display some
hexadecimal reserve public key, which you should copy to the
clipboard. After that, you can paste it into the form
below. When dealing with real currency, you would do
the same, except that you would have to copy the string
into the subject area for your wire transfer instead of
into this form.
Step 3: Select project to donate KUDOS to!
Now it is time to spend your hard earned KUDOS.
For your convenience, we integrated a tiny "shop"
accepting KUDOS right here into this page.
Please choose a project and the amount of KUDOS you
wish to donate.
(*) To make it a bit more fun, the 5 KUDOS option
is deliberately implemented with a fault: the merchant will try to
make you donate 6 KUDOS instead of the 5 KUDOS you got to see. But do
not worry, you will be given the opportunity to review the
final offer from the merchant in a window secured
by the Taler extension. That way, you can spot the
error before committing to an incorrect contract.