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@@ -1,3 +1,40 @@ + Welcome to GNU Taler + + +What is Taler? +============== + +Taler is an electronic payment system providing the ability to pay +anonymously using digital cash. Taler consists of a network protocol +definition (using a RESTful API over HTTP), a Mint (which creates +digital coins), a Wallet (which allows customers to manage, store and +spend digital coins), and a Merchant website which allows customers to +spend their digital coins. Naturally, each Merchant is different, but +Taler includes code examples to help Merchants integrate Taler as a +payment system. + +Taler is currently developed by a worldwide group of independent free +software developers and the DECENTRALISE team at Inria Rennes. Taler +is free software and a GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/). + +This is not even a release yet, but some raw development prototype +that does not work yet. This package also only includes the Taler +mint, not the other components of the system. + +Documentation about Taler can be found at http://taler.net/. + + +Dependencies: +============= + +These are the direct dependencies for running a Taler mint: + +- GNUnet >= 0.10.2 +- GNU libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.38 +- Postgres >= 9.3 + + + Project structure is currently as follows: src/include/ |