Christian Grothoff

BuilderCryptob. 1977· German

Leads GNU Taler (with Florian Dold), the free-software, blockchain-free digital-cash system giving payers unconditional privacy while keeping merchants taxable — payment infrastructure a community or central bank can run itself instead of renting from card networks. Professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences; GNU advisory board member and Ashoka fellow. Active through 2025: Taler talks at the Remaking Money Symposium (Basel), EuroDIG (Strasbourg) and Future Finance Fest (Vilnius), plus current Taler teaching materials on his site.