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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm just hoping GNU taler ends up being good, because it seems like it could be big.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

to elaborate, Taler has been busy going nowhere for coming on ten years now. There is no reason to expect it will do anything. It doesn't do anything ordinary non-nerds don't already get from money.

Given this, and its track record of going nowhere, how does it seem like it could be big?

(I once had rms email me personally asking me to publicise Taler on my blockchain blog. I never got around to it because I couldn't find anything interesting to say about it. Literally its only point of interest is the GNU label, same as the only reason anyone knows about Hurd.)

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Hopefully it doesn't go the way of GNU Hurd