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Except of course if GNU Taler was your retail CBDC, because there holding the digital cash is decentralized and there is no way to block individuals holding digital cash from anonymously spending it. But try to tell @ECB that, they need to hear it from more people than just us.
Digital Euro: a missed opportunity for privacy by Jurjen Bos: medium.com/@jnebos/digital-e…
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Très touché de voir le droit à l'intégrité numérique repris par le #PIC dans son projet de Constitution en France.
L'abolition du marché des données personnelles est un des enjeux fondamentaux pour la mise en place d'une démocratie à l'ère du numérique.
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same as a crypto wallet. you get a qr-code and you scan it with the taler wallet.
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At @nym we accept @taler as payment method. The taler @BtcpayServer plugin is now merged into the official repo and can be installed easily.
github.com/rachyandco/taler-…
Özgür Kesim gave a talk about the digital euro at 3F. He takes a critical look at the design of the digital euro based on the paper "Digital Euro: FAQ Questions Revisited" (arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18644). The slides from the talk are at concretecontracts.codeblau.d…
CNIL organized a panel on the Digital Euro with Leon Schumacher of Taler Systems SA. The video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=zF4KBYi-…
We have a new super-visual post-quantum Taler protocol presentation from E. Pioldi online: e.pioldi.net/taler-presentat…
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Noise to Signal Radio Ep.2 is live!
Christian Grothoff and Alexis Roussel are here to talk about digital payments, and the Nym + Taler partnership
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nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1jxXgenMy…
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📣 May Interledger Community Call
📅 May 13, 2026
Join us for a deep dive into @taler a privacy-friendly digital cash system designed for fast, efficient payments without blockchain
Christian Grothoff, professor of computer network security and co-founder of Taler Systems, will walk through the project’s goals, architecture, and future direction
Details on how to join 👉 community.interledger.org/in…
"Privacy by design for public digital money" by Martin Summer of the Austrian Central Bank published: oenb.at/dam/jcr:90b7d3b1-249… Quote: "Privacy in digital payments is often dismissed as a niche concern, yet this fundamentally underestimates what is at stake."
Introducing Taler for NymVPN: Digital payments without surveillance: nym.com/fr/blog/taler
Interview (in German) about the Digital Euro and how it will not fix Europe's self-determination challenges, and why GNU Taler would be better: das-parlament.de/wirtschaft/…
Digital cash without privacy is meaningless:
medium.com/@jnebos/digital-c…
Özgür and Mikolai will give a talk at Datenspuren 2025 in September in Dresden, titled "Digital Euro - What the FAQ, ECB?" talks.datenspuren.de/ds25/ta…
Taler Systems' iOS lead Marc Stibane discussed Apple's anti-competitive AppStore policies this week with officials from the European Commission responsible for enforcing the Digital Market Act. You can read about our position at taler.net/en/news/2025-05.ht…
We have released GNU Taler 1.0 (taler.net/en/news/2025-01.ht…) and started operations in Switzerland (taler-ops.ch/).
We're happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.14: stage.taler.net/en/news/2024…