It’s been a pretty intense month for the Libra Association, whose stablecoin has come under intense scrutiny from the U.S. Congress and the G7 over fears of destabilizing the global financial system when it launches next year.
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Facebook’s Libra seeks to MySpace Bitcoin
The social media giant’s new stablecoin will harness its 2.7 billion users to bring the new cryptocurrency mainstream
Facebook wants to do to Bitcoin—and maybe even the dollar, euro, and yen—what it did to MySpace and Friendster by launching a new cryptocurrency called libra, announced on Tuesday after months of anticipation and speculation.
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Facebook gets super serious about blockchain
The $518 billion company reorganizes, makes major talent investment in blockchain technology
David Marcus, the man who ran Facebook Messenger, has been reassigned to run the tech behemoth’s blockchain initiative. Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t kidding when he said back in January about blockchain technology, “I’m interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services.” Well, O.K., he’s probably not going deeper and studying anything but Zuck sure seems to be throwing some of his best people on to it. And Marcus seems to be the right fit for the job. Besides being on the board of directors of Coinbase, he was also a former president of PayPal. He announced…
