Unchained Digital Cash Payments – Flash 04 2025
13 May 2025 | 15:05 - 15:30 CEST | Room 7
Consolidated programme 2025
Propsals: #10 (#20)
In this workshop we will demonstrate the GNU Taler payment system. GNU Taler is an open protocol implementing digital cash in Free/Libre Open Source. The system is developed by a global community and is about to be deployed in Europe.
Session description
GNU Taler will re-shape the commercial Internet: Its immediate and privay-preserving micro-payments will enable business models beyond advertising for small-value transactions. Its easy-to-use token-based payments will enable service providers to charge both human and bot users for access.
In our workshop, you will learn how to withdraw digital cash, pay online or in person with improved usability and security. We will also explain how to integrate GNU Taler into new applications and show some highlights of ongoing developments and how you can participate.
Format
We will start with an introductory presentation and then enable hands-on interaction with the payment system, from user-experience to development against the REST API.
Further reading
People
Key participants
- Emmanuel Benoist is professor for computer science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, researching in the area of privacy and anti-privacy on the Internet.
- Christian Grothoff is professor for computer network security at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, researching future Internet architectures. He is a GNU maintainer.
- Olivier Rappaport is an European project manager at E-Seniors association. Within the GNU Taler project, he is mainly involved in testing the usability of the payment system.