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        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>TalerBarr is now available to everyone</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 1.5 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.5.
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        <title>GNU Taler 1.4 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.4.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Critical analysis of digital euro published</title>
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             The Springer journal "Digital Finance" has recently published "The proposed design of the digital euro: A critical analysis" by Mikolai Gütschow and Bernd Lucke. They describe serious flaws in the digital euro design as proposed by the European Commission and propose GNU Taler as an alternative technology for a potential CBDC with tangible benefits for Europeans.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>P15 CoNetWorking Space accepts GNU Taler payments in eCHF</title>
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             The P15 CoNetWorking Space   in Biel/Bienne right next to the train station (and the   BFH) is the first shop to accept GNU Taler payments in Swiss francs (eCHF) issued by   Taler Operations AG and   thus the first merchant accepting Taler payments in fiat currency.   P15 is a great space to net-work, so go check it out!
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        <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler presented at 39C3</title>
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             Mikolai Gütschow and signum gave a talk at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany, where they reported on their good experiences with offering GNU Taler as a local payment system at LugCamp 2024 and Datenspuren 2024 and 2025.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 1.3 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.3.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 1.2 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.2.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 1.1 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.1.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler enables digital payments at Datenspuren 2025</title>
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             by Mikolai Gütschow
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        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>TalerBarr — v0.1.0 released</title>
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             by Bohdan Potuzhnyi
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>OIM Presented in French</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Presented in French</title>
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             by Emmanuel Benoist
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services</title>
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             by Marc Stibane
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        <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 1.0 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.0.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Mailbox and Directory service released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of two new GNU Taler components: The Taler Directory (TalDir) and Mailbox services. The Taler Wallet will be integrated in future versions to interact with the Taler Directory and Mailbox in order to deliver a smooth user experience for Peer-to-Peer payments.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler iOS wallet independent security audit report published</title>
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             RadicallyOpenSecurity   performed an external crystal-box security audit of the   GNU Taler iOS wallet   (excluding wallet-core) funded by NGI.   You can find the final   report here.   We already addressed all significant findings except enabling   FaceID/TouchID   to enable using the app which remains a feature on our roadmap   to be addressed in the next few months.   We thank RadicallyOpenSecurity for their work and the European   Commission's Horizion 2020 NGI initiative   for funding the development of the iOS wallet including the   security review.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 0.14 released</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>libeufin independent security audit report and developer response published</title>
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             We received a grant from NLnet   foundation to pay for the development of libeufin for   regional- and event-currencies.  NGI   assists these projects by paying for independent security   audits. Thus, we are happy that   RadicallyOpenSecurity   performed an external crystal-box security audit of the   libeufin component   of GNU Taler.   You can find the final   report here.   We already addressed all significant findings and   compiled a  response   detailing the changes. We thank RadicallyOpenSecurity for their work,   and NLnet and the European   Commission's Horizon 2020 NGI initiative   for funding this work.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 0.13 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.13.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 0.12 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.12.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Video interview with Mikolai Gütschow on payments for the Internet of Things</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, Evgeny Grin has interviewed Mikolai Gütschow who designed and implemented solutions for the payments in the Internet of Things (IoT).
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Video interview with Özgür Kesim on age-restricted digital cash</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, Evgeny Grin has interviewed Özgür Kesim who designed and implemented an age restriction mechanism inside the GNU Taler coins.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Video interview with Isidor Walliman, creator of the Netzbon regional currency in Basel</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, Evgeny Grin has interviewed Isidor Wallimann who is introducing GNU Taler for the local currency Netzbon in Basel.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Video interview with Christian Blättler on his work on tokens for unlinkable discounts and subscriptions</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, Berna Alp has interviewed Christian Blättler who implemented a system for using GNU Taler for unlikable discounts and subscriptions.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Video interview with Nic Eigel, co-author of the GNU Taler real-time auditor</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, Berna Alp has interviewed Nicola Eigel who implemented a real-time auditor for the GNU Taler exchange with his colleague Cédric Zwahlen.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Videos from main talks of Privacy, Identity and Payment in the Next Generation Internet event at BFH</title>
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             On the occasion of the Point Zero Forum's Innovation Tour, we have showcased the privacy-preserving GNU Taler payment system along with its various applications and extensions – as well as other payment- and digital identity related projects – that are currently being developed at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and its international partners as part of the NGI TALER EU project.  This page includes recordings of the main talks. In the near future, we will also post interviews made with some of the poster presenters (sadly, only about half of the people could be interviewed due to time constraints).
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>KYCID, an operational OAuth2 integration of eKYC</title>
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             In this bachelor thesis Yann Doy presents his implementation of a concept of eKYC (electronic Knwo Your Customer procedure).
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Event: Privacy, Identity and Payment in the Next Generation Internet (Biel, Switzerland)</title>
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             We are happy to announce the final program for our side-event of the PointZeroForum in Biel, Switzerland from 10-12am on July 1st.  At the event, we will be presenting GNU Taler, identity management and hardware key protection technologies and listen to a speech by Patrick Breyer (MEP) on the Digital Euro. You can also meet Isidor Wallimann from NETZBON to discuss the use of GNU Taler for regional currencies. The GNU Taler team will showcase its approach to payments at offline merchants, the snack machine integration, the point-of-sale integration and age-restrictions as a socially-responsible use-case for programmable money.  Finally, this is also a rare opportunity to speak to the BFH students who just finished their work on the SwissPass FIDO2 protocol, the real-time GNU Taler auditor, the Adobe Commerce integration, the donation, subscription and discount subsystems, and the Cashless2ecash integration, all in the same place.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler plugin for Adobe Commerce (Magento) now available</title>
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             This project implemented the GNU Taler payment system in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento). An extension was developed that can now be included in all Adobe Commerce online shops.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Real-time GNU Taler auditor</title>
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             This bachelor thesis implements puts it's focus on the GNU Taler auditor. Cedric Zwahlen and Nicola Eigel made it real-time and added single page application.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Privacy-preserving Subscriptions, Discounts and Tax Deductable Donations</title>
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             Two independent bachelor theses bring new privacy-focused features to GNU Taler.   Christian Blättler designed and implemented token-based subscriptions and discounts in Taler, while Lukas Matyja   and Johannes Casaburi's thesis introduces the Donau system, a new type of a donation authority system.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Cashless to e-Cash</title>
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             During his bachelor thesis, Joel Häberli designed and implemented a framework allowing for cashless withdrawals in GNU Taler.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.11 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.11.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.10 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.10.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.9.4 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.4.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 released</title>
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             We are glad to announce the release of GNU libmicrohttpd v1.0, and future plans for the library.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>NLnet open call with funding opportunities for GNU Taler integrators</title>
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             Join us on our journey towards informational self-determination in payments! As part of NGI TALER, NLnet Foundation is running an open call and will award grants to third parties working on GNU Taler enhancements globally. The application process is simple and the first submission deadline is April 1st 2024.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone</title>
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             We are excited to announce the creation of a European project December 1st 2023, which will run for the next 36 months. This Next Generation Internet pilot named "NGI TALER" is operated by a consortium of 11 partners from 8 European countries with the mandate to roll out an innovative electronic payment system for the greater benefit of European citizens, merchants, and banks. This payment system is different from current online payment methods, like credit cards or bank transfers, in that it offers privacy for the buyer: neither merchants nor banks can trace or link the payments. It is also a no-risk payment option for the merchant as there is no equivalent of fake or stolen credit cards, as payments are cleared and confirmed instantly. The payment system is socially, ecologically and fiscally responsible: it is not a new currency, there is no energy-consuming proof-of-work or proof-of-stake method and clearing is processed much faster than payments by credit cards. NGI TALER enforces [...]
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>NGI Taler project launched</title>
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             We are excited to announce the creation of an EU-funded consortium with the central objective to launch GNU Taler as a privacy-preserving payment system across Europe. You can find more information on the consortium page.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Live demo of the GNU Taler payment system at the g0v-hackath59n in Taiwan</title>
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             Christian Grothoff will give a live demonstration of GNU Taler at the g0v hackath59n in the afternoon sessions.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.9.3 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.3.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Practical Offline Payments Using One-Time Passcodes</title>
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             We are happy to announce the publication on "Practical Offline Payments Using One-Time Passcodes" by The European Money and Finance Forum.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.9.2 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.2.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.9.1 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.1.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Richard Stallman&#39;s Business Pitch for Taler Systems SA</title>
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             To fund further development of GNU Taler, Taler Systems SA is still looking for investors. Our chief moral officer has recorded a special business pitch for those that are interested.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.9 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.0.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Zero-Knowledge Age Restriction for GNU Taler</title>
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             We propose a design for a privacy-friendly method of age restriction in   e-commerce that is aligned with the principle of subsidiarity.  The design   is presented as an extension of a privacy-friendly payment protocol with a   zero-knowledge scheme that cryprographically augments coins for this purpose.   Our scheme enables buyers to prove to be of sufficient age for a particular   transaction without disclosing it.  Our modification preserves the privacy and   security properties of the payment system such as the anonymity of minors as   buyers as well as unlinkability of transactions.  We show how our scheme can be   instantiated with ECDSA as well with a variant of EdDSA, respectively, and how   it can be integrated with the GNU Taler payment system.  We provide formal   proofs and implementation of our proposal.  Key performance measurements for   various CPU architectures and implementations are presented.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Datenschutzfreundliches digitales Bezahlen</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>A digital euro and the future of cash</title>
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             The Central Bank of Austria has published a report in the context of a workshop celebrating 20 years of Euro-denominated cash.  The report discusses the future of cash, including account- and blockchain-based designs, as well as GNU Taler.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler Scalability</title>
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             Anonymity loves company. Hence, to provide the best possible anonymity to GNU Taler users, the scalability of individual installations of a Taler payment service matters. While our design scales nicely on paper, NGI Fed4Fire+ enabled us to evaluate the transaction rates that could be achieved with the actual implementation.  Experiments were conducted by Marco Boss for his Bachelor's thesis at the Bern University of Applied Sciences to assess bottlenecks and suggest avenues for further improvement.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Paper: Who comes after us? The correct mindset for designing a Central Bank Digital Currency</title>
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             The title of the paper refers to the former DIRNSA, who claimed that "nobody comes after us" just before the NSA lost control of its data on Afghanistan collaborators to the Taliban. The paper urges for this cautionary tale to be considered when central banks are creating digital currencies.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Central Bank Accounts are Dangerous and Unnecessary: A critique of two papers</title>
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             In December 2021, the European Central Bank (ECB) published a report on ``Central Bank Digital Currency: functional scope, pricing and controls'' in its Occasional Paper Series, detailing various challenges for the Digital Euro.  While the authors peripherally acknowledge the existence of token-based payment systems, the notion that a Digital Euro will somehow require citizens to have some kind of central bank account is pervasive in the paper. We argue that an account-based design cannot meet the ECB's stated design goals and that the ECB needs to fundamentally change its mindset when thinking about its role in the context of the Digital Euro if it wants the project to succeed.  Along the same lines, the French National Council for Digitalization published a report on ``Notes and Tokens, The New Competition of Currencies''.  Here, the authors make related incorrect claims about inevitable properties of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), going as far as stating that a CBDC is not [...]
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        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Adding Schnorr&#39;s Blind Signatures to Taler</title>
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             Gian Demarmels and Lucien Heuzeveldt have finished their Bachelor's thesis which adds a second blind signature scheme to GNU Taler.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Come una banca centrale dovrebbe emettere una moneta digitale</title>
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             Siamo lieti di annunciare la pubblicazione del nostro articolo su "Come emettere una moneta digitale di banca centrale" che è un lavoro congiunto con la Banque nationale suisse.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Understanding and designing technologies for everyday financial collaboration</title>
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             We are happy to announce that Belén finished her PhD thesis on"Understanding and designing technologies for everyday financial collaboration" which contains many inspirational ideas for future payment systems like GNU Taler:
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Cómo Emitir una Moneda Digital del Banco Central</title>
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             Nos complace anunciar la publicación de nuestro artículo sobre "Cómo Emitir una Moneda Digital del Banco Central" que es un trabajo conjunto con el Banque nationale suisse.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.8 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.8.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Code Blau GmbH deploys first external Taler auditor</title>
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             We received a grant from NLnet   foundation with the goal to qualify Code Blau GmbH   to act as an external auditor for GNU Taler.   To do this, we created a guide   that describes how to deploy a Taler auditor and then practiced the   steps using the existing Taler exchange deployment at BFH.   Code Blau wrote a report   detailing all the steps taken. Finally, we have created a   draft of   the kind of business agreement that Code Blau would enter with banks   operating the Taler payment system.   We thank CodeBlau for their work, and NLnet and the European   Commission's Horizion 2020 NGI initiative   for funding this work.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Comment émettre une monnaie numérique de banque centrale</title>
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             Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer la publication de notre article sur "Comment émettre une monnaie numérique de banque centrale" par le Banque nationale suisse.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>How to issue a Privacy-preserving Central Bank Digital Currency</title>
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             We are happy to announce the publication of our policy brief on "How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency" by The European Money and Finance Forum.
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        <link>https://taler.net/en/news/2021-03.html</link>
        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based</title>
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             We are happy to announce the publication of our paper on "Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based".
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>How to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency</title>
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             We are happy to announce the publication of our paper on "How to Issue a Central Bank Digital Currency" by the Swiss National Bank.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>&#39;RFC 8905 - The &#39;payto&#39; URI Scheme for Payment&#39; published</title>
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             We are happy to announce the publication of RFC 8905 by the IETF.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Talk about GNU Taler in Valencia</title>
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             Javier Sepúlveda  will give a  talk  in Spanish about GNU Taler at Valencia  at an event organized by the GNU/Linux group  from Valencia, which is a public organization supported by the Valencia City Hall  to promote urban innovation and entrepreneurship.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler launched at Bern University of Applied Sciences</title>
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             The GNU Taler payment system was launched at the   Bern University of Applied Sciences   in the presence of a representative   of the Swiss National Bank. Students, staff, faculty and visitors   can visit the cafeteria at Höheweg 80 to withdraw the electronic equivalent of Swiss Franks (CHF)   onto Taler Wallet App   running on their mobile phones and pay at a Taler-enabled   snack machine. The system is expected to expand to allow payments   at other places in the future.  Various faculty members and   students are involved various aspects of the project. Students   interested in working on projects or theses related to the subject   should contact Prof. Grothoff.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Exchange independent security audit report published</title>
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             We received a grant from NLnet   foundation to pay for an   external security audit of the GNU Taler exchange cryptography,   code and documentation.  CodeBlau   now concluded their audit. You can find the final   report here.   We have compiled a preliminary  response   detailing what changes we have already made and which changes we are still planning to make in   the future. We thank CodeBlau for their work, and NLnet and the European   Commission's Horizion 2020 NGI initiative   for funding this work.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Exchange ready for external security audit</title>
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             We received a grant from NLnet   foundation to pay for an   external security audit of the GNU Taler exchange cryptography,   code and documentation.  We spent the last four months preparing   the code, closing almost all of the known issues, performing static analysis,   fixing compiler warnings, improving test code coverage,   fuzzing, benchmarking, and reading the code line-by-line.   Now, we are now ready to start the external audit. This April,   CodeBlau will review the   code in the Master branch tagged CodeBlau-NGI-2019   and we will of course make their report available in full   once it is complete.  Thanks to NLnet and the European   Commission's Horizion 2020 NGI initiative   for funding this work.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.7.0 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.7.0.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.6.0 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.6.0.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.5.0 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.5.0.   The main new feature is customer tipping, which allows   merchants to pay small rewards directly into a customer's   wallet.  Technical improvements include numerous performance   improvements and bug fixes, as well as a new, simpler to use   API for merchants that also enables the implementation of   GNU Taler wallets on platforms that do not support   WebExtensions.
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        <pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler v0.4.0 released</title>
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             We are happy to announce the release GNU Taler v0.4.0 with support for customer   refunds, protocol versioning, incremental key material download, returning funds   from the wallet directly back into one's bank account,   and various other minor improvements. The Chrome and Chromium wallets   are available for download via the App store.  The exchange, merchant   backend and bank components are on the GNU FTP mirrors.  Note that the   Firefox wallet will take a few more days to become available in the   App store due to the Mozilla review process.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>We explain GNU Taler at SHA 2017</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Sva explains GNU Taler at EasterHegg and Torsten demonstrates it is child&#39;s play</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Sva explains GNU Taler at FOSSASIA in Singapore</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Florian Dold explains Taler at 50p in Bangalore</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Documentation pages updated</title>
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             docs.taler.net is now   online, providing a new portal to the Taler system documentation.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Christian Grothoff explains Taler at hasgeek in Bangalore</title>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Wallet for Firefox online</title>
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             We now have a first version of the Taler wallet for Firefox.   For now, a development build of Firefox is required.   Installation instructions are on the Wallet page.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Web Payments paper published</title>
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             We just finished the camera-ready version of our paper on how to use Taler   for Web payments.  This paper does not discuss the cryptography   behind Taler, but focuses on the practical aspects of how the   wallet and the merchants interact over the Web.  Hence, this   paper should be a good read for anyone who wants to integrate   Taler support with their Web site.  We have posted the   paper here.
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Systems S.A. created</title>
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             We now have a business entity for Taler.  Potential investors may   contact the executive team at clevel@taler.net.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 22:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>GNU Taler 0.0.0 released</title>
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             We have reached our first big milestone, the 0.0.0 release!   The release includes implementations of a bank, exchange, merchant and wallet   and is available on the GNU FTP mirrors.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
        <title>Taler Demo for Chrome/Chromium online</title>
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             We finally have a first simple demo for Taler online. The Firefox-variant   still needs some love, but you can start to try out the demo using   the Chrome/Chromium browser at demo.taler.net.   Please provide feedback to our bug tracker.
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             Welcome to our new site about the Taler electronic payment system.
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