Introducing Taler for NymVPN | Nym
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May 9, 2026
shadowwwind:
> IMO, it would be better if individual banks start exchanges as Taler payments can be interoperable. Competition in payment infrastructure is a very good thing.
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> The ECB is basically doing that anyways, just with their own implementation, which basically everyone has issues with.
I doubt that commercial banks would actively push for this, because they can make more profit by selling user data that they wouldn’t get with GNU Taler.
If the Central Bank issues Taler tokens, the commercial banks would be incentivized to also issue them.
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