GNU Taler is a Free Software payment system that preserves the privacy of payers while ensuring that income is visible to authorities.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    I have seen 0 articles relating GNU Taler with the digital Euro, and I am very worried this incredible project will end nowhere. Because the digital Euro is definitely coming and that would be the moment to put Taler to work.

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      1 month ago

      As a french citizen, i reeeeeaaaaaally hope the digital euro will be good, and truly as flexible as cash

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            29 days ago

            Did you heard and read what the banksters said about the digital euro named cash+ ? Did you see how it this authoritarian technology have been abused by the countries that have already implemented it ?

            CBDC have nothing to do with cash, it will be closed and opaque, surveilled and controlled, frozable and perishable. Of course it won’t be on day one, they ususally wait to be necessary in people lives to change stuff just like private companies does. Don’t be fool by the banksters, especially the ones from central banks and cantillonaires… They wan’t to remove cash to have better control over our money.

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              29 days ago

              I largely agree with you, although the language you use implies other perspectives i dont agree with. Most current CBDC’s suck huge amounts of ass, but i have two reasons i still think the digital euro will be good.

              1. A regular credit card has all the issues you described, except the bank, government and an american company (visa or mastercard) have those powers, CBDC’s that work the way you described will only give the government and your bank that power, which still sucks, just slightly less. Of course the real risk is that they use that digital cash to phase out real cash, but that could happen anyways.

              2. The digital euro is not what you described, the initiative’s website promises it will be useable offline, as private as cash. Quote: “Even when you use digital euro online, we would not be able to identify you based on your payments.”

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      1 month ago

      If it’s not going to be used for that, it could still be used as a good paypal alternative.