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https://taler.net/ would be happy to get help.

It's only partially open source. Some server-side code remains proprietary, and the client-side will depend on proprietary code of Google and Apple and they do not plan to support …

Not quite. If you reside in Switzerland, you can own rental homes. Just foreign non-residents cannot buy.

We do need to expire cryptographic keys eventually, there is no sane alternative to this. Now, note that "regularly online" here could mean once every X years depending on how the …

GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into othe…

On this Internet if you don't trust third parties to route all of your traffic through and peers are behind NAT or CGNATs. Or imagine a mixed network with some peers on https://en.…

Actually, there are two: One in C at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/src/service/dht And one in Go at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-go.git/

I'm personally primarily busy with GNU Taler, but still in touch with the more active developers. Major work is still happening on the transport subsystem with the goal of improvin…

Yes, the random walk relates to the "NAT problem". Basically, due to NAT, peers may not succeed when trying to connect to arbitrary other peers (especially if you assume no TURN se…

We've been mostly working on GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/ ), the GNU Name System ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html ) and GNU Anastasis ( https://anastasis.lu/ ). They…

NGI funded us to work on the GNU Name System ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html ), that includes the Go implementation, updates to the C implementation, and the specific…

Indeed, I just wanted to point out that the "game changing" desire of entropyie to fully automate payments can still be done with GNU Taler. So you are right that the scammer in th…

Not quite. GNU Taler's reference implementation requires explicit user consent for payment. But as GNU Taler is Free Software, you are free to modify the code on your system (and s…

Eh, you realize that this very work on the GNU Name System prompted IETF to create the ".alt" zone for this purpose already, minus the $200k fee? Registration is open at https://ga…

You are wrong on many details here. First of all, GNU isn't even a legal entity. The only legal entity is the FSF. Second, only some GNU packages have a copyright assignment to the…

They were clearly told what can be done (like: https://www.suerf.org/docx/f_8ec57b4b3e0f08f05b4793beef0bcd6... ) and what cannot be done (like: https://taler.net/papers/euro-bearer…

Short version: see RedHat. Long version: contact us.

Eh, we never called it decentralized. And you are right, it absolutely is not. We can disagree about whether allowing the government to see your income is ethical or not. However, …

We have a mailinglist (taler@gnu.org), and my personal e-mail is also not difficult to find out. We can always use help. Still looking for an iOS developer, for example.

At this point, different things look plausible in different countries. Consider the possibility of a major banking technology provider offering it as a feature, in which case basic…

GNU Taler uses some libraries from GNUnet (and there is some overlap in core developers), but GNU Taler does not use the P2P (or GNS) functionality of GNUnet.

Correct. The income is merely made visible. Paying taxes is still something each merchant has to do (and calculate correctly).