matt on Nostr: I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that ...
I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that the government should have a (limited) backdoor into financial systems despite voters sometimes electing bad people because, and I’m dead serious here, the German voters would never elect someone with as authoritarian tendencies as Trump.
I guess he missed his history lessons…in literally every year of school there lol
New version of GNU Taler just dropped.
While we're obsessively improving ecash UX for Bitcoin across a dozen apps, this is what the primary fiat ecash system looks like after only 10 years of development.
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2024-12-22 16:53:44Event JSON
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