A history of Libra’s predecessor, Messenger Pay — the first version of Facebook Pay
You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was “no.”
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Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to save journalism
A venture capitalist on how to save journalism — or save venture capitalists from journalism, in any case.
News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoin
And Bitcoin nearly hits $100,000! … for a very brief time.
Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.
Facebook’s Libra was dead as of July 2019
As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of the adults — it’s dead.
News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
Foreign Policy: Twitter Got Lucky With the Great Bitcoin Heist
Other people’s personal data requires controls as strong as the controls on other people’s money.
Voice: $300m to build Twitter for EOS, with a Real Names policy and KYC to get an account
With the real names policy, Voice might repeat the stratospheric success of Google Plus!