I hope this is a good place to ask this. The website (taler.net) says that Taler “[e]mpowers communities to run their own payment infrastructure”. I was wondering if there’s any documentation on this use case specifically, like usage examples or case studies?
Can I, for example, run a Taler network(?) or instance(?) for my neighbourhood, for local stores, etc? I’m sorry if this question has been answered before, I just couldn’t find anything in my search on the website.
Thank you all for your time.
Best,
Filipe Medeiros
System Dynamics Master’s student @ UiB, Norway
Well, in short, as soon as I came upon Taler, I immediately thought of local currencies. Of course, Taler is not a currency, but it can be thought of as a sort of “point system”? At least in my mind:
All small stores in (let’s say) Lisbon take LXCash (Lisbon Cash).
People can “buy” LXCash for Euros (1 for 1).
If you pay with LXCash at a store, you get a small discount.
You can also (maybe?) envision a scenario where the local government buys (from itself? from the national government?) some LXCoins, and gives it out to people, so they can spend it only on local stores, etc.
Also, be sure to have a look at NGI Local for Local’s Open Call if you’re involved in a local currency organisation or if you’re close to one of those. It can grant 60 k€ for such deployments and accompany you in this process!
