Facebook should stop trying to disrupt payments with Libra and focus on repair

2019-8-19 18:00

Facebook has had quite a run operating in the completely unregulated, wild world of social media, finally ending with a mea culpa that it needs government regulation in order to manage the massive social and democratic disorder it has created.

With its new Libra cryptocurrency, Facebook wants to disrupt the most highly regulated industry on the planet: the payments and transborder payments markets. In recent years, startups have made a habit of taking on regulators in order to grow, with Uber and Lyft as the posterchildren. Playing cat and mouse with much-hated, local regulators like the taxi and limousine commissions…

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India doesn’t want WhatsApp sharing your payment data with Facebook

Even as WhatsApp readies to launch its mobile payment service in India later this year, the government is concerned about its privacy and security ramifications. “Indian authorities are concerned that WhatsApp‘s payment service might share user data with group companies Facebook and Instagram, compromising the security, privacy and non-commercial information of its subscribers,” according to a report from the Economic Times.

2019-7-26 09:40


Libra and others that follow it will establish exchange relations with major currencies, says former PBoC Governor

With Bitcoin getting mainstream recognition, there has been a lot of institutional onboarding into digital assets. Giants like Facebook, J. P. Morgan, Amazon, Alibaba, Microsoft, and others from all industrial sectors have started to look towards these assets as something that could potentially help solve problems in existing systems, ranging from payments, transfer of value etc.

2019-7-10 17:30


Will FB’s Libra be a public ‘on-ramp’ to the cryptocurrency world or will it be a detour?

With the smoke from the Libra unveiling now firmly wiped clear, Facebook’s tryst into the cryptocurrency world is now in full view for the world to see. While some are still choking on its fumes, deeming the once referred to as ‘GlobalCoin’ as a tech-focused centralized attempt at payments, others are calling it a breath […] The post Will FB’s Libra be a public ‘on-ramp’ to the cryptocurrency world or will it be a detour? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

2019-6-29 13:30


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Facebook Pushes on with Cryptocurrency Recruitment Despite Libra Project Criticism

Facebook is advertising job offers for a cryptocurrency wallet data engineer and regulatory policy expert as it moves forward with its plans for the Libra project. Meanwhile, stakeholders across the cryptocurrency and mainstream finance industries, as well as government officials, continue to express concerns about the company’s foray into the world of cryptocurrency payments.

2019-6-25 15:00


Facebook’s Libra finds itself in the crosshairs of the Central Bank of Central Banks

It’s been a week since Facebook’s entry into the cryptocurrency and payments world was announced. Since then, a lot has happened. From the Libra lead, David Marcus, talking about shared internal governance control over the cryptocurrency, to the regulatory uncertainty the crypto may face with politicians around the world taking a shot at the it, […] The post Facebook’s Libra finds itself in the crosshairs of the Central Bank of Central Banks appeared first on AMBCrypto.

2019-6-24 09:55


Facebook’s Shady Bitcoin Killer Crypto ‘GlobalCoin’ is Coming 2020

By CCN: Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions could translate into reality as soon as next year. The BBC reports that the social media behemoth is on track to start testing its bitcoin rival – known internally as GlobalCoin – by the end of the year before its digital payments system comes online across 12 countries in the first quarter of 2020.

2019-5-24 12:29


Facebook’s Secret Cryptocurrency Led by PayPal Alumni Just ‘Months Away’ from India Launch

By CCN: Facebook’s much-hyped cryptocurrency project, dubbed Project Libra, may launch in India within a matter of months, according to a Bloomberg report. The secretive blockchain project, led by a team of PayPal alumni, is expected to launch a stablecoin for sending peer-to-peer payments to friends and family as well as integrating with major e-commerce players.

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