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@lkcl.net wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Sam Huntress samhuntress@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.