ECB selects 36 payment service providers to join digital euro pilot. The pilot aims to support the ongoing preparatory work for the potential issuance of a digital euro, and is due to start during the second half of 2027 for a period of 12 months.

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ECB selects 36 payment service providers to join digital euro pilot

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price...

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Very good point from @Giacomo Zucco If it's not FOSS, it will be backdoored. If it's run by a company, the governments will pressure and threaten that company. They have already done it to Telegram, they will do it to Signal. Fixing Nostr DMs is more important than we imagine!

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The hardest surveillance app to quit is whatsapp. The network effect is very strong. So many family and friends groups that it would be hard to abandon. Still, I'm ready to do it as soon as I can get a decent alternative for private messages and group chat. It will take a lot of convincing, but I'm autistic enough that I can drag some of my contacts along and ignore the protest of others. Hopefully leading by example. It would really help if Nostr DMs and group chats worked!

Me está encantando "Micrópolis" de @npub19dg0...6yd2 La tesis central - el fin del Estado moderno - me resulta interesantísima. La muy amplia perspectiva histórica es refrescante, ya que brilla por su ausencia en la mayoría de los autores modernos, con su sesgo pro statu quo. #micropolis

I could not help myself... I had to add some examples of coins and notes from each period to this awesome #timeline of the #history of #money made by @River Of course you could add thousands of coins... but just a few highly representative examples adds a bit of flavour without distracting from the zoom-out, long term view.

This is awesome. Well done @River #timeline #history #money

European Parliament approves the Digital Euro Regulation #cbdc #digitaleuro

Banca d’Italia - The European Parliament decided to open negotiations on the Digital Euro Regulation

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Nostr y la libertad de expresión. Muy relevante hoy. @BTC Consulting 360 #hispano #hola #privacy

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Please help me complete, correct this table of #privacy focused messaging apps. If you were running a FOSS project and had to decide what your team would use to communicate privately... what would you choose?

EU votes for #chatcontrol #surveillance #privacy Privacy and private communications are no longer a right in the EU. Good thing that we have Nostr and FOSS to build privacy first messaging apps.

Nationalists give paramount importance to a common language. It's the most important component of a common culture and a common identity. No nationalist movement worth its salt forgets to prioritise teaching a common language , promoting it, mythologising it and protecting it politically. Some modern nationalisms have even had to reinvent and revive mostly extinct languages and expand their vocabulary to be used in the modern world. The imposition of Hebrew in Israel, to the detriment of living jewish languages like Ladino (sephardic) and Yiddish, is a very clear example. Language connects us to the literature and culture of our past. It allows for multi-generational memory. It creates a shared mentality. Just watch the intensity with which separatist movements fight for their language everywhere, from Flanders to Corsica, from Xinjiang to Quebec. Even in extremely peaceful and stable countries like Switzerland, the german, french, italian, romansch and schwyzerdütsch speakers make sure to defend their own language from encroachment by others and educate their children in their own language. If you are running even a tiny urban gang, you develop your own slang to enhance loyalty and a sense of belonging to an in-group. If you are running a huge empire, a common tongue is absolutely necessary. Ask Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Spanish, the British, the French... the more diverse and international your empire, the more necessary a common tongue is for administration, politics and just basic coordination. Which is why I cannot possibly understand that an institution like the Catholic Church, that had a common, international, 2000 year old language, that was used across the world and was not only a living language, but also a direct connection to religious and secular wisdom going back to before the Roman Empire... would voluntarily give it up. Not only was it a distinctive sign of identity that united catholics from the Philippines to Scotland, but it also allowed direct access to some of the earliest translations of the Gospel (from koine greek to latin). Can you imagine muslims abandoning the Quran in Arab? Can you imagine Hebrews deciding that the Torah is better read in English? Not even the chinese communists during Mao's cultural revolution decided to abandon Han chinese. In fact they imposed it ever more harshly on minorities. But you have preserved the original Lingua Franca, the language in which most of your scholars, scientists and saints have written... and decide to just abandon it? It's either a giant unforced error... or its enemy action.

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