GNU Taler is a far better decentralized payment system (although it’s still in beta)
payer is anonymous, but reciever is known, so it’s unsuitable for ransomware; this design is so that it is taxable and thus more suitable for everyday usage by the masses
To be clear there is nothing “more” taxable about taler than crypto, it’s just integrated with the traditional banking system by design while crypto is self-reported. Also since taler is a payment processor and not a currency, that tax is presumably sales tax rather than capital gains tax. I don’t know if this qualifies as “better” than crypto for payments, I’d say really depends on what your use case is, but I appreciate that taler tackles the problem of paypal by simply doing open source paypal, rather than invent a whole self-sovereign currency.
GNU Taler is a far better decentralized payment system (although it’s still in beta)
payer is anonymous, but reciever is known, so it’s unsuitable for ransomware; this design is so that it is taxable and thus more suitable for everyday usage by the masses
https://www.taler.net/en/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
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It being taxable makes it more suitable for governments to make official, and makes it, as I said, more suitable for everyday usage by the masses
To be clear there is nothing “more” taxable about taler than crypto, it’s just integrated with the traditional banking system by design while crypto is self-reported. Also since taler is a payment processor and not a currency, that tax is presumably sales tax rather than capital gains tax. I don’t know if this qualifies as “better” than crypto for payments, I’d say really depends on what your use case is, but I appreciate that taler tackles the problem of paypal by simply doing open source paypal, rather than invent a whole self-sovereign currency.