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.
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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.
On December 28, 2017 12:17:14 PM EST, Pen-Yuan Hsing penyuanhsing@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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GNU Taler is like a digital IOU system.
It issues cryptographic tokens that are basically like IOUs for fiat currency. I transfer money from my bank to an exchange and receive tokens. I spent my tokens with a vendor. The vendor redeems tokens with the exchange to get fiat money into their bank account.
Theres more too it in the protocols that provides anonymity for the spender and an auditable log for the exchange, the ability to provide "change" for a transactio, nbut that's the gist of it.
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