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Re: [Taler] Rien ne va plus


From: Calvin Burns
Subject: Re: [Taler] Rien ne va plus
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:16:16 +0000

Are there also conversations with organisations representing the peoples
interests not the banks? Central banks act always in the interest of the capital
and are founded, owned or controlled by commercial banks and they have no
democratic legitimation (but do politics).

On Fri, 12/17/2021 08:13:23 PM, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> Dear Wolf,
> 
> Sorry for the shock :-).
> 
> In terms of talking with banks, I can say it's progressing. A German
> bank has recently completed its first core banking integration test
> (withdraw and payment) and we hope to progress towards a public beta in
> H1'2022.  We've also talked to a very interested person in charge of
> payment system innovation at a commercial Swiss bank, and this week
> there was also a presentation by Sebastian to a commercial bank in
> Argentina (no idea how it went).
> 
> Just today, we presented Taler to the German Bundesbank, and we also
> talked to the central banks of Spain, Austria, Japan, Taiwan, USA,
> Canada this year. But, central banks move very slowly and carefully,
> even more so than commercial banks, so we don't expect anything reaching
> consumers via them anytime soon. But, they are interested and do clearly
> listen (and ask lots of questions).
> 
> In terms of what's not going so well: iOS wallet development has been
> stalled for a while, so it would be great if we could find some UI
> developer specializing in iOS App development to push this. Otherwise, I
> fear we won't be able to support a major platform at launch. We also
> have a non-trivial number of bugs in the bugtracker that really ought to
> be addressed before going public. As always, help is welcome (but yeah,
> I need to get taler.net back up before anyone could possibly do that...)
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> Christian
> 
> On 12/17/21 2:37 PM, oehmannemuere@gmx.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I had an awful moment seeing the subject of your message, as a fan of
> > the Taler concept who is not up-to-date regarding the plans for a Taler
> > launch... It would be great if at some point you guys could share what
> > you are able to share publicly: How are the talks with banks and other
> > players going? Is there an expectation when people (who are not at
> > Berner Fachhochschule) will be able to pay with Taler?
> > 
> > Thanks, have a nice end of the year,
> > 
> > Wolf
> > 
> > On 17.12.21 14:25, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> >> Let's just say Dell and hardware raid controllers are not a good idea...
> >>
> >> taler.net fails to boot, even though the data is presumably on 7 disks.
> >>
> >> I'll see what I can fix later...
> >>
> >> -christian
> >>
> > 
> 

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