Libra attempts to placate everyone else
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has received almost universal push-back since its announcement, so now it’s looking for ways to placate its critics.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has received almost universal push-back since its announcement, so now it’s looking for ways to placate its critics.
Visa and Mastercard are among a group of partners in Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency venture to decide the whole thing is too risky.
Internet financial services giant PayPal is the first member of the Libra coalition to jump ship and probably won’t be the last.
The French Finance Minister has said he will block Facebook’s plans to launch a global cryptocurrency, citing its threat to monetary sovereignty.
Like cockroaches scattering from the light, bankers are reportedly high-tailing it away from Facebook’s venture into cryptocurrency.
Not many people understand the complexities of cryptocurrency and an alarming number of people don’t trust Facebook; it seems combining the two is not a well-received idea.
In a testimony before the US Senate Facebook indicated its Libra cryptocurrency will run from Switzerland, but it forgot to ask the Swiss if that was OK.
Almost everyone will agree the technology industry needs to be held accountable through regulation, but we are starting to wonder whether the sticky fingers of bureaucracy are getting too involved.
As threatened a couple of weeks ago, the House Financial Services Committee has called for Facebook to halt its cryptocurrency plans.
The announcement of a new currency led by Facebook has caught the attention of US law-makers and not in a good way.
Social media giant Facebook has announced the launch of Libra, a ‘stablecoin’ apparently designed to revolutionise the digital payments market.
Facebook has reportedly enlisted the support of a dozen organizations to underpin its cryptocurrency project and help keep the social media giant honest.
Reports suggest Facebook is in the process of developing its own cryptocurrency, with plans to launch in as many as a dozen countries as early as Q1 2020.
AT&T has announced it’s the first US operator to accept cryptocurrency from its customers to pay their bills.
JP Morgan has created the first cryptocurrency to be backed by a U.S. bank but you can’t buy any and it’s not obvious what the point of it is.
Precedent means a lot in the legal world, and with large segments of cryptocurrency still unexplored, there might be a few keeping an eye on AT&T’s progress in this interesting case.
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