Never liked the one way privacy of it, and it’s not a coin. It also adds nothing you don’t get already in the underlying cryptocurrencies. It’s a payment proto

Never liked the one way privacy of it, and it’s not a coin. It also adds nothing you don’t get already in the underlying cryptocurrencies. It’s a payment protocol for arbitrary assets. You can pay in Bitcoin via Taler. I don’t think it will gain traction. The best payment protocol for Bitcoin today is Lightning Network, and is as open, and more sophisticated than GNU Taler ever was. Yes, I ack that BTC is pubkeyhash and scripthash pseudononymous are not private.