The central bank of France plans to pilot a central bank digital currency for financial institutions by the end of the first quarter of 2020.
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Facebook is a company that owns one of the largest social networks with the same name. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates during their studies at Harvard University. Initially, it was made as a website internal to the university, which then spread all around the world.
The company has expressed interest in investigating the uses of blockchain technology for Facebook Messenger by launching a new team for this task. However, in the beginning of 2018, it was announced that all advertisements related to cryptocurrency or any other suspicious financial product would be banned on the site in order to provide better security for Facebook users. In addition to this, the absence of legislation concerning the use of cryptocurrency deters Facebook from considering involving it in their payment system.
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Libra could face even more stringent requirements as U.S. lawmakers introduce a bill seeking to classify stablecoins as securities.
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Blockchain researchers at online brokerage eToro have argued that Facebook should look to support third-party stablecoins, not Libra.
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The CEO of Kakao said that the Klaytn blockchain developed by its subsidiary Ground X is similar in operation to Facebook’s Libra network but more advanced.
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CEO of blockchain firm R3, David Rutter, has ridiculed the way Facebook introduced its yet-to-be-released Libra stablecoin.
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by Helen Partz
A bipartisan team of senators introduced legislation that would regulate Facebook’s Libra stablecoin under securities law.
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by Will Heasman
With Facebook and Google establishing themselves more firmly into the financial industry, what is the future like for crypto?
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The Libra Association, the entity behind Facebook’s forthcoming Libra stablecoin, has logged over 51,000 transactions on its network during the past two months.
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by Helen Partz
One of the 21 founding members of the Libra Association, Bison Trails, has raised $25.5 million from Blockchain Capital, Coinbase and ConsenSys.
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Fundstrat’s Tom Lee believes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will hit major price valuations in the same manner that the tech behemoths did.
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by Joeri Cant
As worldwide regulators continue to stonewall the Libra stablecoin project, Facebook moves forward with Facebook Pay, a new fiat payment system.
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A Dutch court has ruled that Facebook must remove crypto-related fraudulent investment ads after television producer John de Mol filed a lawsuit against the com...
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A senior U.S. federal official argued that Facebook’s Libra highlights the need for the FED to urgently launch its own real-time payments system — FedNow.
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by Joeri Cant
Calibra CEO David Marcus said the firm is investigating how it can appoint an auditor to ensure that financial data and personal data from Facebook do not inter...
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