Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra

Re:Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra by bawolff on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:42PM (#25325523)

I don't understand why people don't revisit DigiCash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash) for this kind of usecase. It seems like a really good fit for this type of usecase where you are giving up on the proof-of-work aspect of bitcoin, but want all the other cool properties of cryptocurrency, and has better anonymity properties.

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Re:Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra by summm on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:04PM (#25325722)

They do. It's called Taler ( https://taler.net/ )

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Re:Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra by bawolff on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:11PM (#25325795)

GNU Taler seems to not let people receiving payments be anonymous, which to me seems like a rather random design choice that has nothing to do with the underlying technology and severely limits Taler.

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