Yeah, because Alby wallet here is so TOTALLY decentralised at only $9.99/month 😆

Okay, that will be still the mandatory way of proving your right to work... if you're a foreign national, because that's the only situation when the question at all arises. The upcoming Digital id project FAQ clearly explains that nobody will be obliged to show it to police, for example - it will be only used when applying for work.

That's essentially expansion of the EU Blue Card program that has been operating for years, very good initiative https://www.apply.eu

Precisely! I was curious how it works and started reading about Taler and the general EUDC architecture, and then it came out to be really much easier than we have today.

The above document describes the existing paper-based process and I believe the only thing it proves is how cumbersome it is for foreign nationals working legally in the UK. I don't understand what you mean by "mandatory for everyone", because the rules for UK nationals do not change:

> If you’re a British or Irish citizen, you can prove your right to work in the UK with either of the following: a British passport, an Irish passport or passport card. Your passport or passport card can be current or expired.

https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work

She's speaking in the context of money ownership. What she means by digital euro is central bank issued money - that is a payment token that YOU hold and YOU pass it to whomever you like, just like you do with a physical coin or bank note. When you use a debit card or send a bank transfer, you use bank/issuer/processor money in a complex chain of proxies, each of which charges commission and can - in the worst case - stop the transfer. Both are technically digital, but it's different money from ownership perspective.

I don't think it's European civilisation that is collapsing after watching this...

Maybe her statement is a little too dramatic with this “action against the euro,” but she's right, the GNU Taler prototype works very well—like Metamask, only faster.

By the way, I'm relatively new to Nostr so tried to use the wallet feature but it's rather disappointing. Snort Social advertises Alby wallet on every step, but if you actually try to use it you find you need to a $9.90/month account to be even able to receive and send some pennies in zaps 😆 So I'd rather stick to good old SEPA, sorry...

European Council President António Costa:

> We won’t abandon Ukraine like others did in Afghanistan.

I wonder whom he's talking about 🤔

Yes, and he also said that he will never change constitution, that he will never got for the third presidential term, that he won't invade Ukraine, that he won't annex any lands etc etc 😆

Okay, whatever works for you

Well, of course he does "logs the linkage" because that's the whole point of using the card - confirm that John Doe is John Doe. If you don't want to confirm your identity, you just don't show the card. How else this works when you fill a paper form with your details and show a physical passport?

Well, the primary alternative is hundreds of bank-operated payment systems - like bank transfer, debit cards etc - but these have one disadvantage, you use bank's money, one party always pays the commission, and the operator can block your funds at any moment.

The ECB speaks of "giving citizens access to central bank money" which is just financial jargon for, well, cash. Cash that you hold and can spend any way you like, by giving it at your discretion to the other party. Digital cash works in the same way, the working prototypes using GNU Taler look just like using MetaMask to pay someone, except it's much faster and doesn't use 1000 kWh per transaction.

https://krvtz.net/posts/how-eu-digital-cash-might-look-like.html

It's likely to be based on GNU Taler, which is a neat and easy to use standard - some photos with the test wallet https://krvtz.net/posts/how-eu-digital-cash-might-look-like.html

I don't know what you're describing here, sounds like some variation of contactless payment card standard EMV which, as it's name suggests, is managed by three private payment processors, and it indeed does stores your last transactions.

EU digital id is a smartcard that signs things using its internal processor and it doesn't store any transactions. Even read-only access, e.g. to retrieve biometrics, is protected by a code printed on the physical card, so there's a kind of two factor to access it. It has all the crypto nerd's imagination out there, in an easy to use form factor.

No, the EU national id aren't like US driving licenses you order on eBay. There's passport-strength protection on the physical layer and full cryptographic strength protection on the digital layer. Leaking anything from a website gives you equivalent of GPG fingerprint at best, not even the hint of the actual keying material.

No I don't feel you at all. What does it mean "their slice of me"? I'm talking of hundreds of copies of my bank statements dumped in some shitty companies across the country, each of which can dump them to garbage or sell to a local scammer if they need money.

And no, the national id as we have in EU doesn't store any "entire life with iris scan", it's just a certificate that says "this guy is John Doe, born X" and my address if I want to, and when I present no silly agency has the right to refuse this and demand more evidence that me is me.

> single database breach and bam, every vendor now holds your dna in plaintext

Very good point. Single highly restricted database versus hundreds of obscure agencies keeping my financial documents in their desks. Who's more likely to leak first? 🤔

And sorry, there's no "correlation" needed. Morons at these agencies keep my FULL bank statements with my FULL name and three years of address history, because that's how risk-based identity verification is done here.

Sorry, no. There's many visa types into UK and employer can't verify the right to work at THE particular role based on passport alone. I happen to live in the UK and I happen to be an EU national, so this directly applies to me. I recommend you first find out what's the current situation before ranting about something you might know from the US, but it's a different country in spite of only one character difference

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-work-checks-employers-guide