New version of GNU Taler just dropped.

While we're obsessively improving ecash UX for Bitcoin across a dozen apps, this is what the primary fiat ecash system looks like after only 10 years of development.

Who wants nuts? Reply with “🥜” and I’ll send you some — testing the latest update.

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The problem with CTV is fees. When you look at most designs using CTV, they need *another* tx, and an anchor output, so they can pay fees.

What they really want is "this tx, plus an input and optional change output".

People tend to ignore fees in their protocol design. But I'm implementation they're critical, and only getting more so. Lightning has been down this path!

Fun fact: I have never voted on an election.

It’s not the first time I felt like I’ve lived another life. It’s weird and I don’t like it.

One time it was an entire lifetime in one dream.

So much for Elon's stance on "free speech"

Me encantaría poder comunicarme telepáticamente.

fee burden remains a difficult concept to explain to users in high fee environments

We have our first ever Cashu dev call today at 16:00 UTC – hit me up if you are a developer and you're interested in Cashu and would want to join.

It's going to be chill. We want to say hi, present different Cashu projects and there's going to be a presentation of how Pay-to-Pubkey works with ecash.

Very exciting! 🧡

Canceling my bounty for a marketplace. I should have had an expiration date. 🤦‍♂️

Nobody has delivered on the vision / requirements but I’m happy to see some progress in other areas.

I don’t think the bounty system is all that great 😔

Sats will be directed towards other nostr projects or zapped to people contributing to current projects (to be determined).

wtf? Just can’t believe this is just an ongoing thing that never stops

For those of you that feel “ahh but we have Lightning” let me tell you that if you really want to have self custodial LN with these fees it’ll force you to pay higher price and to only open big channels

In addition, any payment below 7usd in LN if it fails, can’t really be recovered onchain

So.. this is not very good and I hope it again forces us to seriously discuss how to enable some of the proposed upgrades so all this usage goes to a sidechain or an L2 and we continue using bitcoin and Lightning while enabling those solutions as well like ZK proof, spv proofs, etc