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GNU Taler to the rescue!
The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/
The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.
Haha no, thanks. I really don't understand why Stallman stands behind dystopian statist money.
I think the idea was that you can't hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it's normal bank standard.
What do you mean with "dystopian statist money"?
Since when keeping the money you earned is "hoarding" and a bad thing?
I think money with expiration period that exists to prevent people from having savings is very dystopian, I don't feel like there is something to explain.
For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It's why inflation won't ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that's why I didn't call it saving the second and third time)
It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won't be lost, it's "just" a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).
So the idea isn't that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.
In the conflict of interest of individuals vs. "the economy" I'm on the side of individuals, sorry.
I'm with you on that.
If he doesn't like hoarding, why doesn't it just inflate?
I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me
Woot! It's been a while since I looked into Taler, but I've long held that we should be using it or something like it for digital transactions. I'd love a browser extension that compensates creators for removing ads, for example, and I think this would be a fantastic way to do it. But having it at a national level is even better!
Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.
I hope someone posts here when/if they decide to adopt it, because I'd love to hear more details about it.