It’s another blockchain book! Except it’s really about that time when Facebook tried to take over the money, and the world stood up and said “yeah, ah, no way.”<\/p>\n
\nWHEN FACEBOOK TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE MONEY
\nSilicon Valley tries to disrupt the world \u2014 and the world finally tells them \u201cno.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\nFacebook: the biggest social network in the world, with intimate influence over its users\u2019 lives. A stupendous, world-shaping success.<\/p>\n
But governments were on Facebook\u2019s case over privacy, abuse of personal data, election-rigging and fake news.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg wondered: what if Facebook could pivot to finance? Or, better: what if Facebook started its own private world currency?<\/p>\n
Facebook could have so much power that governments couldn\u2019t annoy them any more. It would be the Silicon Valley dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Going live 2 November 2020<\/b>. w00t! Kindle first, paperback and probably audiobook to follow.<\/p>\n
The book site is here (please spread this URL): https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/libra\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s another blockchain book! Except it’s really about that time when Facebook tried to take over the money, and the world stood up and said “yeah, ah, no way.” WHEN FACEBOOK TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE MONEY Silicon Valley tries to disrupt the world \u2014 and the world finally tells them \u201cno.\u201d Facebook: the biggest … Continue reading “New book! Libra Shrugged: How Facebook\u2019s dream of controlling the world\u2019s money crashed and burned – released 2 Nov 2020”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-kN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}