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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

Taler Systems' iOS lead Marc Stibane discussed Apple's anti-competitive AppStore policies this week with officials from the European Commission responsible for enforcing the Digital Market Act. You can read about our position at https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-05.html

GNU Taler's privacy-preserving payment system is operational in Switzerland (see: https://taler-ops.ch/en/) with our release of GNU Taler 1.0 (see: https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html for details).

We're happy to publish the results of the NGI Zero funded independent security audit of libeufin (GNU Taler's core banking integration component) by RadicallyOpenSecurity as well as our response detailing how we (already) addressed the various findings: https://taler.net/en/news/2024-26.html

Julian Assange's first public appearance: https://x.com/TheWakeninq/status/1841032292682088810

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community

GNU Taler v0.13 has been released: https://taler.net/en/news/2024-24.html

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-08/internet-id-ueberwachung-social-media-erkennung/komplettansicht -- can someone please replace CTID with eIDAS? Why does die Zeit report so critical on China, and say very little about the EC doing basically the same thing in Europe?