How the wheels came off Facebook’s Libra project
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/18/how-the-wheels-came-off-facebook-libra-project
Support for Mark Zuckerberg’s mission to reshape global finance is slipping away slowly but surely When Facebook announced plans to launch a digital currency earlier this summer, it added a full-blown revolution in global finance to its typically vaulting Silicon Valley mission statement : to create a digital currency alongside its efforts to bring the world closer together through networks. Over the past month, that mission has gone badly awry. The Libra cryptocurrency project now faces (...)
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