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I wasn’t expecting this to be based on a GNU project. I’ve heard of GNU Taler before, but it didn’t really register this initiative was based on the project.
So, opposed to cash the government can still view all transactions but the corporations can’t. This would be an improvement over card payments in terms of privacy, but it’s still worse than cash.
~~The amount of people using proof of stake payments is negligible and the people that are currently using cryptocurrencies probably won’t switch. So this probably won’t impact energy usage at all.~~
Overall, I think it’s good to see effort being put into further development and testing of the GNU technology. We’ll see what happens to it in a couple years.
If I understand correctly, goverement would see when you cash out money to Taler Wallet, but now what you buy then. But I do not know the protocol internal work.
The banking/payment industry today runs extremely power hungry systems to process payments, so my guess would be the new system runs much more efficiently.
Source for banking CO2 footprint
This system would slow or stop adoption of these energy intense operations, so in that way it would positively prevent new energy wastage.
Good point