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{{ _("Taler is an 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 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. Just like payments in cash, nobody else can track how you spent your electronic money. However, you obtain a legally valid proof of payment.") }}

{{ _("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.") }}

{{ _("Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications. Payments are cryptographically secured and are confirmed within milliseconds with extremely low transaction costs.") }}

{{ _("Taler does not introduce a new currency with fluctuation risks, and instead uses a digital wallet holding coins in reserve. Taler's cryptographic coins correspond to existing currencies, such as US Dollars, Euros or even Bitcoins.") }}