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Özgür Kesim of Concrete Contracts was invited to give a talk about the digital euro at the Future Finance Fest in Amsterdam on June 5 2026. He takes a critical look at the design(s) of the digital euro and summarizes the key insights from our joint paper Digital Euro: Frequently Asked Questions Revisited (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18644). The slides for the talk are at https://concretecontracts.codeblau.de/talks/3f-2026.pdf

CNIL organized a panel on the Digital Euro with Leon Schumacher of Taler Systems SA. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF4KBYi-wSM

Another more introductory presentation on GNU Taler by E. Pioldi: https://e.pioldi.net/taler-intro/

New super-visual post-quantum Taler presentation by E. Pioldi: https://e.pioldi.net/taler-presentation/

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