Ha, I just read about it on the website of the swiss national television (German - https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/digitales-geld-bezahlsystem-... ) and I was looking for discussions here.

(Google Translate: https://www-srf-ch.translate.goog/news/schweiz/digitales-gel... )

Other previous discussions:

- Feb. 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261314

- Jan. 2022 (refers as well to other posts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850143

I feel like their attempt to be taxable is contrary to the traditional reasons for using a digital currency. Even then, I would be surprised if a government uses taler rather than their own implementation. Always wanted to talk to the gnu people about this.

While I'm big on free and open source software and aligned with the general GNU mission, I find that the projects that go under its umbrella or often terribly misguided, pointless and hopeless and thus largely ignored by the rest of software community.