grothoff

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by grothoff 5mo ago
https://taler.net/ would be happy to get help.
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by grothoff 1y ago
It's only partially open source. Some server-side code remains proprietary, and the client-side will depend on proprietary code of Google and Apple and they do not plan to support platforms that are actually Free Software. The law over
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by grothoff 1y ago
Not quite. If you reside in Switzerland, you can own rental homes. Just foreign non-residents cannot buy.
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by grothoff 2y ago
We do need to expire cryptographic keys eventually, there is no sane alternative to this. Now, note that "regularly online" here could mean once every X years depending on how the system is configured.
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by grothoff 2y ago
GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/); privacy-preserving payment system. Written in C/Java/TypeScript/Kotlin/Rust/Postgresql/etc.; needs include coding (especially integration into other applications
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by grothoff 2y ago
On this Internet if you don't trust third parties to route all of your traffic through and peers are behind NAT or CGNATs. Or imagine a mixed network with some peers on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc
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by grothoff 2y ago
Actually, there are two: One in C at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/src/service/dht And one in Go at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-go.git/
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by grothoff 2y ago
I'm personally primarily busy with GNU Taler, but still in touch with the more active developers. Major work is still happening on the transport subsystem with the goal of improving NAT traversal. Some work is being done to make the co
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by grothoff 2y ago
Yes, the random walk relates to the "NAT problem". Basically, due to NAT, peers may not succeed when trying to connect to arbitrary other peers (especially if you assume no TURN servers or other infrastructure to facilitate). The
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by grothoff 2y ago
We've been mostly working on GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/ ), the GNU Name System ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html ) and GNU Anastasis ( https://anastasis.lu/ ). They all
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by grothoff 2y ago
NGI funded us to work on the GNU Name System ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html ), that includes the Go implementation, updates to the C implementation, and the specification. Plus NGI funds work on https:&#x
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Patrick Breyer: "The Digital Euro is a problem and not the solution"(taler.net)
3 points by grothoff 2y ago|0 comments
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by grothoff 3y ago
Indeed, I just wanted to point out that the "game changing" desire of entropyie to fully automate payments can still be done with GNU Taler. So you are right that the scammer in the default deployment won't succeed, but addit
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by grothoff 3y ago
Not quite. GNU Taler's reference implementation requires explicit user consent for payment. But as GNU Taler is Free Software, you are free to modify the code on your system (and share your with others) to not require an explicit confi
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by grothoff 3y ago
Eh, you realize that this very work on the GNU Name System prompted IETF to create the ".alt" zone for this purpose already, minus the $200k fee? Registration is open at https://gana.gnunet.org/dot-alt/dot_alt
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by grothoff 3y ago
You are wrong on many details here. First of all, GNU isn't even a legal entity. The only legal entity is the FSF. Second, only some GNU packages have a copyright assignment to the FSF, not all. Some packages use a DCO, and some have
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by grothoff 3y ago
They were clearly told what can be done (like: https://www.suerf.org/docx/f_8ec57b4b3e0f08f05b4793beef0bcd6... ) and what cannot be done (like: https://taler.net/papers/euro-bearer-online-2021.pdf )
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by grothoff 4y ago
Short version: see RedHat. Long version: contact us.
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by grothoff 4y ago
Eh, we never called it decentralized. And you are right, it absolutely is not. We can disagree about whether allowing the government to see your income is ethical or not. However, we have consistently stated the facts (not decentralized, in
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by grothoff 5y ago
We have a mailinglist (taler@gnu.org), and my personal e-mail is also not difficult to find out. We can always use help. Still looking for an iOS developer, for example.
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by grothoff 5y ago
At this point, different things look plausible in different countries. Consider the possibility of a major banking technology provider offering it as a feature, in which case basically on day 1 you have 1000 banks that can choose to offer i
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by grothoff 5y ago
GNU Taler uses some libraries from GNUnet (and there is some overlap in core developers), but GNU Taler does not use the P2P (or GNS) functionality of GNUnet.
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by grothoff 5y ago
Correct. The income is merely made visible. Paying taxes is still something each merchant has to do (and calculate correctly).
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by grothoff 5y ago
This will change in the future once we have implemented P2P payments. So consider it a feature on our roadmap. See https://docs.taler.net/design-documents/013-peer-to-peer-pay...
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by grothoff 5y ago
Yes, but we still need to make it easier to setup/deploy this.
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by grothoff 5y ago
There is no public roadmap on the business side as the commercial banks we are talking to are not yet willing to have their names disclosed to the public. They're rather conservative institutions (by nature), so they want things to be
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by grothoff 6y ago
I am the GNU Taler co-maintainer and working paper co-author. The development is community-driven. But as you see from the paper, the community is talking with central banks about deploying it. There is no contradiction.