Five of Europe’s biggest economies are urging the European Commission to enforce strict regulations for stablecoins—in the surest sign yet that Facebook’s embattled Libra project isn’t out of the woods despite drastic changes.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that damaging news articles about someone (or their embarrassing photos) would be deleted forever, but a person may be entitled to have Google search results and Wikipedia references that link to them expunged—the equivalent of removing a book from a library’s index system. Now, someone would only be able to see this content if they knew exactly where to look.
Local finance news outlet Il Sole24Ore reported on Sept. 8 that Conte believes that digital payments would result in the financial system being “faster, more transparent and traceable which in perspective means creating for recovering the shadow economy.” He explained that all this could result in lower taxes for all of Italy:
The new authorization allowed Ziglu to launch its peer-to-peer transaction service that allows users to instantly send each other money in any of the currencies supported.
