You are correct - I should have been more explicit, but I was using comparing Taler as a system to move arbitrary money against the Bitcoin network[0], which is

You are correct - I should have been more explicit, but I was using comparing Taler as a system to move arbitrary money against the Bitcoin network[0], which is a system to move a specific money (Bitcoin the coins), or the various blockchain networks, which do similar for other tokens (including securitized fiat, as in stablecoins) [0] "the Bitcoin network", meaning the use of blockchain transactions to facilitate payments, or off-chain schemes to do the same with on-chain settlement (as in lightning network)