I’ve been tossing around CI pipelines for my work just for mirroring because of the patch work of support that repos have right now …

You can disable the sharing aspect and just download. I mean I agree it’s the law there that is wrong.

It also takes the fun out of mischievous rule breaking/bending if you are the sort that likes to push boundaries. It’s an acknowledgement of the cat and mouse game and a meta ask to not play it here, implying the other player won’t find it fun.

Again only works for good faith actors.

I say this as a guy who can’t help but think of rules lawyering to see what could technically be done within them.

It seems like Taler is EU focused are there plans or work done for others banking systems?

I am biased against proof of work coins personally so ETH would be my preference. Otherwise we’re just contributing further to climate change.

In your opinion, why should crypto be the primary payment method for a project like this?

Another reason is that they can subsidize their retail business with their web hosting business.

I don’t like it personally, I don’t contribute to projects that are designed to easily feed non-free systems. There is a lot of corporate influence both direct, but even more in people catering to companies potential of exploitation in order to maximize there and the projects value to corporate interests.

It’s common for these people to just not see these as tools that “normal” people need, but as tools for companies that admins, and devs use. This is in stark contrast as to when gnu utils were deved