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Author: Mikolai Gütschow <mikolai.guetschow@tu-dresden.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:54:39 +0200
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Throughout the event, SPURLOS were accepted alongside euro cash at various booth
<li>The merchandise booth employed Taler OTP hardware, designed at <a href="https://www.bfh.ch/">BFH</a>, to verify payments for t-shirts and bags <a href="https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19469">without an Internet connection</a>.</li>
<li>Food stalls, including Küfa (kitchen for all) and WOC (Waffle Operation Centre), used printed QR codes to accept variable amounts of SPURLOS in exchange for delicious food.</li>
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+<h2 id="privacy-preserving-payments-strike-a-chord">Privacy-preserving payments strike a chord</h2>
<p>The offer of privacy-preserving payments with GNU Taler received an enthusiastic response.
Over the course of the three-day event, our Taler deployment facilitated more than 500 payments, with 20-25% of the total transaction volume handled digitally—a remarkable 60% increase compared to last year.
An estimated 100 visitors purchased SPURLOS tokens by withdrawing to Taler wallets, with pay-ins evenly distributed between cash conversions and bank transfers.</p>
@@ -23,12 +24,14 @@ Indeed, feedback on-site and online was overwhelmingly positive.
<a href="https://23.social/@thomasfricke/115236069828597879">Thomas Fricke</a> echoed this sentiment, calling Taler “the easiest way to pay your drinks!”</p>
<p>The ease of use extended to the bar staff as well.
“Clicking the order and receiving payment via QR code is far simpler than managing cash change. It makes our work much easier! We should consider ways to encourage more people to use Taler next year”, shared a bartender.</p>
+<h2 id="valuable-insights-from-on-site-testing">Valuable insights from on-site testing</h2>
<p>However, some attendees and staff noted that QR code generation at the bar could be slow, attributed to the Internet connection.
The GNU Taler team <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=9207">already has ideas</a> how to improve operation in such low-connectivity scenarios.
People responsible for the merchandise stand also mentioned the offline payment confirmation using TOTP hardware could be cumbersome due to manual amount entry and verification code checks.
Enhancements to streamline this process, including adding NFC support for tap-to-pay functionality, are underway.</p>
<p>We would like to thank the team behind Datenspuren for their collaboration and the chance to offer GNU Taler to a broader audience.
Such feedback is invaluable for future improvements. If you attended the event and have thoughts to share, please reach us at contact@taler.net.</p>
+<h2 id="bring-taler-to-your-own-event">Bring Taler to your own event!</h2>
<p>In case you know an event where you would like to offer Taler for privacy-friendly digital payments, we invite you to replicate <a href="https://gitea.c3d2.de/mguetschow/datenspuren-taler-setup">our setup for Datenspuren</a>:
You’ll need a VM to host the <a href="https://docs.taler.net/libeufin/regional-automated-manual.html">regional-currency deployment</a>
along with an EBICS-enabled bank account for SEPA bank transfers (preferably at a bank tested with Taler software, as banks often have their own variations of the EBICS standard).
