Software: Plasma Mobile, Appnativefy. dav1d, and GNU Taler on Digital Currencies


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Plasma Mobile applications tarball releases
Plasma Mobile team is happy to announce availability of tarballs for several of Plasma Mobile applications, they are available to download from download.kde.org
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Appnativefy – Turn Any Website into Single Executable Appimage
Want to create web apps into the portable Appimage package format? Appnativefy is a simple tool to do the job.
Appnativefy is a simple command line tool to make executable AppImage files from any website, it uses the Nativefier API in the backend, with AppImageKIt.
Appimage is an universal Linux package format. Different to other packages, you don’t need to install it. Just make it executable and run to launch program!
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dav1d 0.8.2 AV1 Decoder Showing Nice Uplift On Intel, AMD CPUs
Released yesterday was dav1d 0.8.2 as a fairly significant update to this AV1 CPU-based decoder. For those wondering what this update means for performance, here are some initial benchmarks.
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2021-2: "How to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency" published
With the emergence of Bitcoin and recently proposed stablecoins from BigTechs, such asDiem (formerly Libra), central banks face a choice of either leaving the field to private actorsor offering their own digital alternative to physical cash. We do not address whether a centralbank should issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Instead, we demonstrate how acentral bank could do so, if desired or needed. We propose a token-based system withoutdistributed ledger technology and show how earlier-deployed, software-only electronic cashcan be improved upon to preserve transaction privacy, meet regulatory requirements in acompelling way, and offer a level of quantum-resistant protection against systemic privacyrisk. Neither monetary policy nor financial stability would be materially affected because ourCBDC would replicate physical cash rather than bank deposits.
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