[Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

Julie Marchant onpon4 at riseup.net
Thu Dec 28 17:11:46 GMT 2017


gnu taler seems sufficient to me. We don't need crypto currency, a way to anonymously and securely transfer actual money should do just fine.

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Julie Marchant
https://onpon4.github.io

On Dec 28, 2017 11:32 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Sam Huntress <samhuntress at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Currently Bitcoin is an insane gold-rush bubble that is frivolous and
> > wasteful but it has the potential to balance out into the secure,
> > distributed, democratized digital currency it was designed to be and I
> > think that is something worth spending energy on.
>
> indeed...  would it not be worthwhile, do you think, to leverage
> *this* opportunity... such that the funds were available to *create*
> an eco-responsible coin that is *properly* libre, properly
> peer-to-peer distributed, and so on?
>
> look at what i put out only a few weeks ago, we analysed at least two
> alt-coins that, whilst the people behind it had their hearts in the
> right places they *still* did not fundamentally get it.
>
> if we don't do this "properly" then those alt-coins will be all that
> is available... oh and bitcoin.  is that something we really really
> want?
>
> gone midnight here (julie) i'll write a more complete reply tomorrow.
>
> l.
>
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