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.

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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. (09/19/2025 10:53:19)
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 (08/28/2025 11:45:06)
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 (07/04/2025 17:46:37)
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). (05/11/2025 20:05:28)
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 (11/29/2024 12:40:24)
Julian Assange's first public appearance: https://x.com/TheWakeninq/status/1841032292682088810 (10/01/2024 14:00:00)
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community (09/13/2024 18:05:38)
GNU Taler v0.13 has been released: https://taler.net/en/news/2024-24.html (08/29/2024 10:15:46)
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? (08/29/2024 08:48:06)
The videos from the main talks of the "Privacy, Identity and Payment in the Next Generation Internet at BFH: Innovation Tour Point Zero Forum" event are now available online at https://taler.net/en/news/2024-14.html (07/15/2024 18:51:53)