Due to people complaining last time I posted about this: GNU Taler is a privacy preserving payment system, but not a crypto-currency.

  • flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    This is interesting, I can see this being a more accessible alternative to crypto. It does reduce the use cases, I can see it being used for cross-border purchases where the product is illegal in the buyers country

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      6 months ago

      It’s a way to digitally pay money like Visa or Paypal but (FOSS and better for privacy), so you could use it for everything from online shopping (micropayments on the fediverse?!?) to paying at the supermarket. If people adopt it …

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    6 months ago

    Has anyone tried this out yet? Ive been somewhat following its progress as well as the progress of the whole gnunet project and they seem to be doing really good work.

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      6 months ago

      I have tried out their Kudos demo, which works great. Otherwise there is sadly not much you can try out yourself yet and self-hosting is a bit complicated from what I have seen in their documentation.