Re: [Taler] GNU Taler was suggested to Brazil's Central Bank

[Christian Grothoff]

Sounds great, I hope they answer you! I'm working on a paper about how
one could use Taler for a Centrally Banked Digital Currency (CBDC), once
that is finished, that reference might help in discussions with Central
Banks. (We're also changing a bit the 'tipping' protocol implementation
in the merchant (!) right now to make the Taler architecture already
support the envisioned CDBC-scenario.)

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 4/19/20 3:05 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira via Taler wrote:
> Following Brazil's Central Bank announcement of a work group for
> studying a way to standarduze an instant payment system, I and other
> Brazilians[1] sent an email to the related work group suggesting the
> fostering and direct contribution to GNU Taler.
> 
> In the message we also me tioned the "taxable" part of GNU Taler.
> 
> I don't know if Brazil's Central Bank have read and
> considered/registered the suggestion, since I got no e-mail so far about
> that.
> 
> What we didn't mention, that occurred to me to be also of good note is
> that perhaps this can be an opportunity for Brazilian government to help
> GNU Taker by making the software able to generate what Brazilians call
> "Nota Fiscal Eletrônica" (abbreviated as "NFE", " NFe", "NF-e"; term
> which is translated to English as: electronic fiscal note/document). The
> document is plain .XML file which uses some sort of XML schema, but I
> don't know much besides that.
> 
> Physical/printed/paper and also .PDF versions of the NF-e are called by
> similar name, but removing the "e"/" electronic"/"eletrônica" part of
> the name/abbreviation.
> 
> As a side note, I'm currently struggling to get any personal/direct
> email address from any person inside Brazil's Central Bank since their
> site requires non-free JavaScript (blocked by GNU LibreJS), or some
> non-free browser (like Chrome, Chromium, Iridium, Firefox, etc). I found
> the work group's email address for receiving proposals, but I still
> don't know if it was effective and if the suggestion will be considered.
> 
> 
> # References
> 
> 
> [1]:
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Action_items/Para_o_Banco_Central_do_Brasil:_Fomente_o_GNU_Taler
> .
>