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I think GNU Taler missed their chance of adoption since the world has moved on and was impatient with their progress.

Blockchains that support stablecoins are already here and millions of people already use them (and soon agents will use them as well).

All for worldwide, instant and extremely low fee payments and transfers.

Blockchain isn't necessary at all for instant, low fee payments. And no, pretty much nobody is using cryptocurrencies
> And no, pretty much nobody is using cryptocurrencies

That's just not true, and I'm not talking about "you can pay with Bitcoin in the store" use case but the stable coin use case for settlement, which you can see Stripe expand a lot in the past years.

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