Comment by mdhb
2 months ago
There’s a digital euro launching next year AFAIK which is designed to replace Mastercard and Visa. It’s been in the works for ages and is coming online at a pretty critical time it seems.
It comes with a full digital wallet infrastructure part of it too. So some of the fundamental tech scene is definitely changing in Europe.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
GNU Taler is not coming? :-( Whatever happened to NGI Taler program anyway?
It's still going. NGI ("Next Generation Internet") is a Horizon Europe program, part of the EU's mission to strengthen European economy. It doesn't mean that any of the projects that receive subgrants from that pot are officially adopted for anything. It is the NGI grantees who decide which subgrantees receive funding, not the EU (in this case, NLnet Foundation). Hundreds of open source projects have received financial support from this pot.