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{{ _("Taler is a new electronic payment system under development at Inria. This community Web site provides extensive documentation about the system, which we expect to make operational in 2017.") }}

{{ _("Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can learn their citizen's total income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.") }}

{{ _("When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and exchange will also never learn how you spent your electronic cash. However, you have proof that you paid for use in court if necessary.") }}

{{ _("Taler is free software from the GNU project implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications. The payment system will thus foster competition instead of putting some vendor in control.") }}

{{ _("Taler is designed to work on the Internet. Using a so-called RESTful protocol over HTTP or HTTPS, Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications. Taler requires participants to be online when they make payments.") }}

{{ _("Taler uses payment providers which hold financial reserves in escrow accounts denominated in existing currencies. This means that Taler does not introduce a new currency with the inherent currency fluctuation risks. Taler's cryptographic coins correspond to existing currencies, such as US Dollars, Euros or even BitCoins.") }}