Does anyone know whether GNU Taler is involved in any way with these proposals? I feel like they'd be the natural people to work on anonymity. Looking at their website, I see that they've at least commented on them:
I think the main benefit is that all a lemonade stand or späti or what-have-you needs to start selling something digitally is a qr code someone can scan.
No that's not how it works. Only the seller needs to install the app. Sumup works with regular contactless cards, phones, watches etc. If you want contact chip cards also you can buy a reader for 25€.
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What we need from this digital euro is anonymity just like the cash it's meant to replace. But nobody is talking about that.
Does anyone know whether GNU Taler is involved in any way with these proposals? I feel like they'd be the natural people to work on anonymity. Looking at their website, I see that they've at least commented on them:
https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-08.html
Cash is still the predominant way to launder money: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cash...
Of course, if there's money some people are going to do bad things with it.
This is what _you_ need. Ursula and her friends want to know where _you_ spent _your_ money.
I think the main benefit is that all a lemonade stand or späti or what-have-you needs to start selling something digitally is a qr code someone can scan.
You can do the same already with something like the sumup app and then you can pay with any card not just a mobile.
There's a network effect to this stuff. Nobody is installing an app to buy lemonade.
No that's not how it works. Only the seller needs to install the app. Sumup works with regular contactless cards, phones, watches etc. If you want contact chip cards also you can buy a reader for 25€.