GNU Taler Wallet

Wallet for GNU Taler, offering privacy-preserving electronic payments.
What is GNU Taler Wallet?
GNU Taler Wallet is a Firefox add-on that provides a wallet for GNU Taler, a system that enables privacy-preserving electronic payments. With Taler, governments can easily track income for tax purposes, payments can be made anonymously, and the system is based on free software and an open protocol. Taler uses existing currencies as reserves, making it a viable option for the mainstream economy. Learn more at taler.net.
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Users: 124 ▲ 10
Rating: 4.17 (6)
Version: 0.13.1 (Last updated: 2024-08-28)
Creation date: 2015-12-18
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
  • storage
  • <all_urls>
  • activeTab
Size: 2.09M

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GNU Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves

Note: The add-on is still experimental and intended for developers. Check out the demonstration.

Taxable Unlike Bitcoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.

Anonymous When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and mint will also never learn how you spent your electronic money. However, you can prove that you paid in court if necessary.

Libre Taler is free software from GNU implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications.

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User reviews

Current version goes crazy and chews up ~30% CPU across all 32 cores on my machine and causes each tab to become suddenly very CPU intensive.
by Firefox user 18254695, 2024-08-12
Great concept. Hope the EU adopts this! It sits somewhere between physical cash and debit cards. I'd use this over PayPal or debit cards both online and in real life!
by Asudox, 2024-03-10
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

GNU Taler Wallet may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

GNU Taler Wallet is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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