• Google monetizing yet another pair of eyeballs (photo by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay).
    Libra,  Technology

    Facebook, Google want to be your banker

    In separate announcements, Facebook unveiled a non-blockchain payments tool that could compete with Libra, and Google said it will offer consumer checking accounts

    The tech giants that already know everything about you, and now they want to be your banker, too. What could possibly go wrong?

  • French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire (via the government of France's website).
    Europe,  Libra,  Technology

    Vive the digital euro?

    French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and ECB board member Benoît Coeure call for the EU to create its own digital currency

    Shortly after calling for a ban on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire suggested the European Union should create its own digital currency.