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Please describe how I can send the money to my mom in Russia (disconnected from SWIFT) with GNU Taler today. I'll wait.
I don't know how I could possibly have been more explicit about it not yet being ready for any real-world use cases than I was.
It will never be ready. It doesn't even make sense. To transact with real fiat like the US dollar, you'll have to go through an official on-ramp and an off-ramp of the respective government. And to do an international transaction you'll have to use one of the widely accepted systems like SWIFT. GNU Taler doesn't appear to address anything like that. Anyhow, my comment was made with the premise of this whole thread in mind, i.e. "Bitcoin is stupid" or "snake oil". Yet there's no alternatives to what crypto provides. So is it that stupid after all?
How wasteful!
Anyhow, today I'm going to resume using a currency backed by oil and nukes, which encourages consumption on purpose. I will then either exploit workers by investing in a for-profit business, or get poorer.
But someday, in the future, economics will work the way I expect them to. That's when I'll switch to something better!
Russia has had oil and nukes and it didn't stop the ruble from collapsing in the 90s
Maybe reexamine your assumptions
Oil and nukes won't stop the dollar from collapsing either...
Exactly. With Monero, she gets it in seconds and no one can stop it.
lol the downvotes. your mom is clearly evil and doesn't deserve any money