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https://taler-ops.ch/ is live in Switzerland and allows exactly this: anonymous microtransactions. What law exactly would prevent someone from doing the same in the US?

He's trying to rewrite history by having FLOSS start with Linux instead of with GNU.

Hot water has less oxygen, the fish suffocated. This was on the Japanese news over a week ago, but without the "nobody knows why" part: it was blamed on unusually warm ocean temper…

The article is focusing on the technical side, but the economics are also silly. The ECB says that the Digital Euro will be free of charge for consumers as a "public service". And …

Teaching users is of course the tricky part, and I'm not trying to excuse the insane draft regulation here. That said, eIDAS doesn't force browser vendors to visually distinguish A…

The logical solution for browser vendors is to also roll back the URL bar by 10 years, where we had different indicators for extended validation, normal certificates and plaintext.…

May I suggest: With Free Software ( https://taler.net/ )?

Sorry, but some people will run routers (and other IoT devices) for > 10 years, and long past some random 2 year EOL a manufacturer may set. We need less e-waste, and if manufactur…

Simple. Give the manufacturers the choice: either they must provide full (FLOSS) source code and documentation (full schematics) to the user to enable them to maintain, patch and t…

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https://arbor.bfh.ch/17195/ describes how to accept BTC or ETH using GNU Taler.

Do you have a wallet v0.9.0? Which wallet are you using? Last I checked it worked fine with the Firefox wallet and the Android wallet.

To answer the last question in your blog post: gnunet-config --diagnostics tells you where the configuration file(s) are.

RFC-style spec is at https://lsd.gnunet.org/lsd0001/

Eh, GNU Taler does enable income transparency (income = business) while enabling privacy for private (personal) expenses. So the only thing absurd here is for the article to call t…

http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint lists GNUs looking for help.

The author presumes that a CBDC has to be account-based and privacy-invasive. As pointed out in this other posting [1] that was made today, that is not the only option. [1] https:/…

Central bank accounts would clearly be a convenient tool for financial warfare, especially once cash has been digitized. Not just against Russians. Against any kind of opposition, …

Most of their team seems to have been involved in the RMS witchhunt, despite RMS being one of their vocal supporters. Did they have nothing better to do?