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One of the many reasons I'm proud to work on the #Taler digital payment system is that we focus on the needs of citizens. And as digitization continues, also how we pay, it is important to make digital payment systems inclusive for those who have difficulty when dealing with numbers.

Christian Grothoff has something to say about how we test ways to make a digital wallet as accessible as possible.

https://youtu.be/-N9b711xhSs?t=1152

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Digital cash, made socially responsible - GNU Taler | Interledger Community Call - 13 May 2026

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

2d ago

Christian Grothoff mentions that Taler is looking to try to create a financial institution.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

2d ago

Christian Grothoff encourages people to try out the Taler demo at:

https://demo.taler.net

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GNU Taler Demo

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

2d ago

A presentation about Taler is being given by Christian Grothoff.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

2d ago

RE: https://interledger.social/@Interledger/116562745149177743

I am on the Interledger Community Call today.

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william ⁂ maggos 2d ago

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yes but I don't think coops in the middle solve this either. they become more useful as they get bigger but that gives them more power and they can always eventually abuse that power. or maybe even just do something that only a quarter of the musicians hate. it can't sustain.

instead imo we need less work on competing systems, more work on protocols/APIs, apps and servers. and then a fuckton of advocacy for decentralized fiat.

#AssetFlow #interledger #GNUTaler #PublicPatron

Interledger Foundation May 6

Experiential learning helps students move beyond theory and into real-world financial innovation.

The Dollar Craft Program at Alabama A&M University brings business and engineering students together to design prototypes and explore how digital financial systems work in practice.

Supported by the Interledger Foundation’s NextGen Higher Education Grant.

https://interledger.org/grant/education/nextgen

#Interledger #FinancialInclusion #NextGen

Interledger Foundation May 5

Calling developers and open source contributors 👩‍💻👨‍💻

The Open Payments SDK Grant funds projects improving developer tooling, API standards, and SDK generation.

💰 $5K–$50K available

👉 Apply: https://interledger.org/grant/open-payments-sdk

#Interledger #OpenPayments

william ⁂ maggos May 2

"Nowadays, if I want a book or song, there’s a good chance I can buy it online from the person who makes it, with no third party except the payment processor."

We've technically decentralized media production/consumption and the attention machine. Of course we still need to make these systems easier and greatly increase adoption.

But the money people still have us by the balls. That's really why creators aren't here yet.

#interledger #gnutaler #AssetFlow #FediForFiat

https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/28/stranded-vessels/

Stranded Vessels | TechCrunch

The 20th century was owned and operated by middle men. Industry began as the creation of something for which would be traded other goods, services, or cash. As production centralized, distribution (as always) rose to close the distance between the product and the consumer. Facilitating consumption became a business unto itself: printing, shipping, packaging, and all the rest. A respectable, powerful, and necessary business. More recently, when certain products became capable of being distributed without this mighty infrastructure, that business ceased to become necessary, and correspondingly their power and respectability are now in decline. Words and media being the most portable data, the huge industries that have long facilitated their consumption are dying, slowly and poorly. How long before the present titans of technology find themselves in a similar position? It's hard to imagine exactly how it will happen, but the trends are easy enough to extrapolate.

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Interledger Foundation Apr 30

When systems work together, money moves more freely.

From M-Pesa to UPI, interoperable payments are making money more connected and accessible.

In this blog, Casey Ariel Dike explores what’s possible when systems “talk” to each other.

#Interledger #OpenPayments