> Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom. As I understand it, the people developing GNU Taler, are trying to solve this problem and have come up with a promising system. https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

GNU Taler is an example of the third possibility. If Bitcoin is "digital gold," Taler is digital banknotes. Source: over 1 year ago

You should check out GNU Taler[1]. Literally attempting to solve this problem. [1]: https://taler.net/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Beyond 2FA, some type of chaumian cash like https://taler.net/en/ might help too. But the problem is really downgrade attacks. There are multiple payment systems (bank wire, check, credit card ) and if there is one insecure way to make payments, then the whole system is broken. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

GNU Taler comes to mind but the adoption is not there. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use Hidden Bar (https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden) for this. It works well enough despite not being updated in a while, though there is a bit of jank. Just tried out Ice and it seems to be a nice, lower jank replacement! - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

I switched to HiddenBar a few years ago when a Bartender licence ran out. It's open source, it's free, and it hasn't been taken over by a new owner who won't identify themselves. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

The open-source Hidden Bar is my current solution to this problem, but I think I prefer this native fix. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

  brew install --cask hiddenbar

. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

There's Hidden Bar but I think it's a lot like Bartender. It has an arrow too if that's what you want. Source: about 1 year ago

Hidden is a great free and open-source alternative. Source: about 1 year ago