Weekending 28th September 2019
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Is Facebook’s digital currency un-stoppable?
Is it already too late to stop Facebook and its digital currency, Libra?
Facebook reported, in its Q1 2019 press release, that it now has 2.38 billion monthly users across its various apps — Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, with 2.4 billion people using one of these apps every day. This is a rise of 8% over the last yearin which Facebook had 1.56 billion logging on EVERY DAY (itself being also an increase in the last year of 8%).
As the Chinese Crypto Czar pointed out,“That the most a central bank could do to prevent Libra from entering a country would be to ask all of their payment institutions and commercial banks not to process any transactions which are related to Libra. Still, there are a few back channels through which users could circumvent the ban to purchase Libra, look at underground Bitcoin trading in China as an example of how it could work”.
Indeed, look at the success the Americans had (or not!) when they introduced prohibition in 1920, as by 1925, in New York alone, there were over 100,000 illegal bars. Not only was there a huge loss in revenue from the tax on ‘booze’ not being levied and collected, but there were 1,500 federal agents who had to be paid and whom were meant to enforce prohibition. Then, there was all the loss of life and social unrest from gangsters, such as Al Capone, who roamed the streets in the USA. In…
