GNU Taler begins operating in Switzerland, distributed by the Taler Operations AG. Gnu Taler aims to be a “digital wallet” and has been used by the swiss national bank as well as the european national bank as a example for how a digital currency handed out by the state could work. It aims to be as privacy preserving as cash for the buyer while not allowing the seller to evade taxes.

Currently the Taler is brought out by a special organisation, the “Taler Operations AG”, and not the national bank, although both the national bank as well as the Taler Team have shown interest in a official digial currency by the national bank based on the Taler. But we need to relativate as the national council has stated that the introduction of a digital currency would probably take relatively major legislative changes and therefore take a bit of time.

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    Nope. Iirc you can self host it to pay using your fictional currency, but currently noone other than switzerland is actually using it. Europe was considering it, so you’ll see what happens in 2027/2028.

    If you are in germany, The GLS bank will be inviting people to test it: https://www.gls.de/taler

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      GLS charges per month. I’ll never understand why Germans pay to give their money to a company to invest and profit off of it