How you actually buy Qals

The founder's loop, plain English: download, set up, address, check it, choose an amount, pay — and watch the credit land with an anchored receipt. Run it for real-feel in the browser first; nothing is charged, everything is labelled.

▶ Run the interactive buy loop

The whole thing, clickable: create the wallet, write the 12 words, set a passcode, get your qoll-code, check the address, pick 20/50/100/500, pay by card / BTC / ETH (all fake, watermarked), see CREDITED + receipt. Then the send / compute / chat tabs are yours.

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⬇ Get the real wallet

Linux first: one .deb (3.3 MB, sha256-verified). Phone installs as a PWA — no APK yet, honest — native one's on the roadmap.

Download hub →

Direct download (Linux today): qal-wallet_0.1.0_amd64.deb ↓ — 3.3 MB · sha256-verified · PWA for phones, no APK yet · or the download hub.

Get the walletOne download — Linux .deb today, or the browser demo right now.

Set upCreate account → 12 recovery words (paper, safe — no resets ever) → 4-digit passcode.

Your addressqoll-code sticker + full qal1q… address + QR. Copy — that's where payment lands.

Check itVerify the last characters against the device screen. The cheapest anti-theft habit there is.

Choose how much20 / 50 / 100 / 500 Qals — 1 Qal = AU$1 credit, always, shown before you confirm.

Payment screenCard, BTC invoice (QR + 15-minute window) or ETH — all simulated in the demo.

Enter detailsCard fields go to the payment platform, never to us. BTC/ETH: just send to the invoice.

Confirmed → creditedBalance updates, receipt lands in your wallet — tamper-evident, anchored on the Loom.

Spend itHire GPUs by the hour, pay inside encrypted chat, redeem services — every spend brings back a receipt.

Paying with Bitcoin — the invoice flow, step by step (paper rail · pre-launch):

You ask for N Qals of credit; the payment bridge creates an invoice denominated in AUD.
The BTC amount is computed from a rate locked at invoice time — a median of multiple rate sources, so no single feed can skew it — plus a disclosed spread. The invoice expires in 15 minutes.
You pay the exact BTC amount from your own wallet — QR or copy-paste, shown on the payment screen.
The credit tops up 1:1 with AUD value, and the receipt — anchored on-chain like every receipt in this system — records the BTC transaction id, so the audit trail links your payment to your credit forever.
Per-invoice and daily BTC intake caps apply, starting small — enforced in the payment bridge itself, not just the invoice layer.

Refunds exist for failed purchases only (job never ran, unlock never opened, top-up errored) — this is never a cash-out rail. Full policy: Paying with Bitcoin.

Three honest money-notes: the network itself never charges you anything · the top-up carries a small spread (that's the margin — shown, not hidden) · refunds of failed purchases come back at the AUD value. Detail: the fee policy.

demo payments are simulated · no real money moves · full walkthrough: how-to-buy.html

wallet demo · chat demo · download hub · the written walkthrough · hub