This topic aims to create a general-purpose glossary to extend the existing, offical one.
GNU Taler Official Glossary
The GNU Taler’s official documentation provides:
TALER ICH Explanations
This Documentation extends the official one above and all explanation topics help getting deeper into technical concepts.
Learn more about TALER ICH Documentation.
Merchants
From the official doc:
The entity/service that gives out digital cash in exchange for some other means of payment.
In some contexts, using “Issuer” could also be appropriate. When showing a balance breakdown, we can say “100 Eur (issued by exchange.euro.taler.net)”. Sometimes we may also use the more generic term “Payment Service Provider” when the concept of an “Exchange” is still unclear to the reader.
From the forum: What is an Exchange, Banking and Exchanges interrogations
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