Libra Lol

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Libra Coin: just jokin’ lalala

A month and a half after promising a digital currency that would have rescued 1.7 Billion people without access to the banking system, Facebook now says “too risky”. No wait, let’s read their own words from their second quarterly report: We recently announced our participation in the Libra Association, which will oversee a proposed digital […]

My take on Libra Coin

Summary of the previous post: Libra coin is a token whose value is based on an ETF. Tokens creation and transfers are managed by a centralized database, but only members of the Libra association may access this database. Being part of the association needs an investment of 10M$ and it’s invitation-only. Normal users will have […]

What Libra Coin actually is

The Libra Coin whitepaper has this hide-and-seek writing style that makes it few things explained in a confused way. I’ll try to summarize them here. The starting point is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) pegged to a basket of currencies (USD+EUR+…), but there aren’t details on what kind of rules this fund should follow. Basically, there […]