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Welcome to GNU Taler
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What is Taler?
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Taler is an electronic payment system providing the ability to pay
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anonymously using digital cash. Taler consists of a network protocol
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definition (using a RESTful API over HTTP), a Mint (which creates
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digital coins), a Wallet (which allows customers to manage, store and
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spend digital coins), and a Merchant website which allows customers to
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spend their digital coins. Naturally, each Merchant is different, but
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Taler includes code examples to help Merchants integrate Taler as a
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payment system.
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Taler is currently developed by a worldwide group of independent free
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software developers and the DECENTRALISE team at Inria Rennes. Taler
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is free software and a GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
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This is not even a release yet, but some raw development prototype
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that does not work yet. This package also only includes the Taler
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mint, not the other components of the system.
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Documentation about Taler can be found at http://taler.net/.
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Dependencies:
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These are the direct dependencies for running a Taler mint:
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- GNUnet >= 0.10.2
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- GNU libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.38
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- Postgres >= 9.3
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Project structure is currently as follows:
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src/include/
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-- installed headers for public APIs
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src/util/
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-- common utility functions (currency representation,
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Taler-specific cryptography, Taler-specific json
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support)
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src/pq/
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-- Postgres-specific utility functions
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src/mintdb/
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-- Mint database backend (with DB-specific plugins)
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src/mint/
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-- taler mint server
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src/mint-tools/
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-- taler mint helper programs
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src/mint-lib/
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-- libtalermint: C API to issue HTTP requests to mint
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