News: David Marcus quits Facebook, WhatsApp uses Novi, corporate NFT disasters
NFT promoters need to be forced to walk the streets ringing a bell, yelling “UNCLEAN,” and wearing a scarlet ฿.
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Facebook’s Novi hooks up in Guatemala with Paxos, not Diem — just in time for the stablecoin report
David Marcus said in September that Novi would only abandon Diem as a “last resort.” Well, that didn’t take long.
News: Facebook abandoning Libra/Diem, Soulja Boy vs. Atari, Kurson arrested again, El Salvador
The Diem Association is “effectively a zombie organization.” Ya think?
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 6: Banking the unbanked
A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?
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.”
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: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi
“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
Facebook’s Libra national currency plan isn’t new — it was always the fallback plan B
Revamps are in the air, because Libra still can’t get its bad idea past the regulators — the same ones who said “LOL, what on earth, absolutely not” within hours of Libra’s initial announcement last June.