[FloDo]

Related, a working paper published by the Swiss National Bank on using this technology for a central bank digital currency:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260524

[herodoturtle]

Thanks for this - although I think that working paper referred to a centralised payment system - whereas this one seems to be community driven.

[grothoff]

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.

[herodoturtle]

Thanks for weighing in - I stand corrected.