| It's good to know that side of things hasn't been abandoned. > I remain hopeful that we'll get through this mess "soon" I know you can't give more definitive timetable or details about actual negotiations, but at a high level what does "get though this mess" here mean, what's the short-to-medium term goal that Taler is trying to achieve for how it initially enters the market? Is it possible I wake up one day X months/years from now and just see an announcement that a bank has now decided to use Taler and it'll go live next week, or is this something that's expected to be much more gradual in its rollout? I don't feel like I have a great understanding of what the process for adoption for Taler looks like beyond the long-term goal that banks would start supporting it and then merchants would follow. I'm not sure if the plan is: - a bunch of private negotiations happen, and then there's a breakthrough and suddenly within a year half of the banks are using it, or - a bunch of smaller organizations take it up, and it starts out more niche and starts to grow, or - somebody someday starts a Paypal equivalent that isn't even technically a bank, just a payment app. I guess given that Taler is in talks with banks, the hope is that it gets adopted first with those banks; so is the goal that if talks are successful the rollout starts out at an almost national scale? |