On P2P payments from their FAQ: “While the payment appears to be directly between wallets, technically the operation is intermediated by the payment service provider which will typically be legally required to identify the recipient of the funds before allowing the transaction to complete.”
How about, no? How about me paying €50 to my friend for fixing my bike doesn’t need to be intermediated, KYCed, and blocked if they don’t approve of it or know who the recipient is? How about it’s none of the government’s business how I split the bill at dinner with friends? This level of surveillance is madness, especially coming from an app that touts “privacy” as a feature.
GNU Taler is a trojan horse to enable CBDC adoption. They are the friendly face to an absolutely terrifying level of government control in our lives funded by the same government that tries every year to implement chat control. Imagine your least favourite political party gaining power. Now imagine they can see and control every transaction you make. No thanks.
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Also I don’t have a interest in buying drugs and weapons
Ban cash when?
Cash is physical and can be traced. At the end of the day you need to send it or meet someone to transfer goods. That’s also why it is good for privacy as it is physical.
How are you tracing cash?
You’ll need a gun when the glowies go after you for not using Windows 12 with TPM 2.0 and latest updates applied.
That’s why we should be able to buy one legally