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GNU Taler v1.0 released (www.taler.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GNU Taler is a Free Software payment system that preserves the privacy of payers while ensuring that income is visible to authorities.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's an objective improvement over EMV which doesn't protect privacy at all.

Taler protect payer privacy while exposing income information. Meaning it can help collect taxes to pay for infrastructure, education, public service, ...

That's a fine compromise. I hope Taler become a practical alternative to EMV and other shitty payment systems being pushed by banks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Stores should accept monero to eliminate paying taxes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol yeah right

Also you would still have to pay sales tax

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You should go to a few countries and see how the world operates. Stores can include all taxes in the quoted price upfront before the sale, as many countries embed the taxes in the price shown publicly, and then the store takes privacy coin payment like monero, and if the store does not record a few sales to skip on taxes since there's no payment account tied to company name, even better