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

[Pen-Yuan Hsing]

Interesting, I haven't heard of GNU Taler. But please excuse my 
ignorance: Reading the official website doesn't help me understand 
exactly what it is. Can you explain (or link to a good explanation)?

On 28/12/17 17:11, Julie Marchant wrote:
> 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.
> --
> 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.