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The recording of the community call introducing GNU Taler to the Interledger foundation community is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9b711xhSs

My noise-to-signal interview with the good folks of https://nym.tech/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gVYPqi1lqI

Eli explains her work on Post-Quantum Taler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9b711xhSs

Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini bypass page protected by (static!) paywall based on GNU Taler by paying with GNU Taler command-line wallet within seconds. No MCP required (but could likely improve speed and reduce token usage in the future). Let's protect the Web against AI bots with micropayments and make AI pay, it clearly can!

New paper "Privacy by design for public digital money" by Martin Summer of the Austrian Central Bank stresses the importance of privacy in a retail CBDC and points to GNU Taler (https://taler.net/) as an example of how this could be achieved.

NymVPN accepts Taler payments: "Today’s dominant systems – credit cards, fintech apps, and even most crypto solutions – are built around data extraction. Every transaction leaves a trail: who paid, who received, when, where, and often why. This financial metadata is highly sensitive, yet it is routinely exposed to banks, intermediaries, and third parties. GNU Taler offers a fundamentally different approach: a digital cash protected against surveillance. This is why Nym is excited to offer Taler payments for NymVPN to expand its private-payments infrastructure." -- https://nym.com/fr/blog/taler

I was interviewed by "Das Parlament", the official publication of the German Bundestag about the Digital Euro: https://www.das-parlament.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/die-abhaengigkeit-von-google-und-apple-bleibt

Digital cash without privacy is meaningless. As the article explains the Digital Euro team about to get a lesson from mathematics: https://medium.com/@jnebos/digital-cash-without-privacy-is-meaningless-63470fc52688

Fernando Navarrete (European Parliament) recently published another extremely well-written paper on the need for a Digital Euro for which he is the rapporteur (!). He is unaware of the technical difficulties with the offline proposal of the ECB, but other than that the paper is very much on point.

Prof. Katrin Tinn (https://www.katrintinn.com/, unaffiliated with GNU Taler so far) just published a paper showing that Taler's asymmetric privacy (https://taler.net/) is optimal (!) for welfare from an economic perspective: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2024.06830?journalCode=mnsc

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