It s been nearly two years since Facebook launched its ill-fated Libra cryptocurrency effort.
Since then, the popularity and acceptance of cryptocurrencies has soared.
But while the world has left Libra for dead, Facebook has not given up on its crypto dreams.
In June, 2019, Facebook unveiled plans to create a digital currency called Libra that, once released the next year, would be pegged to hard currencies including the US dollar. As Facebook spun things, Libra would be a democratizing force, a salve for the unbanked, the tech giant s benevolent gift to the world.
It was a sound-and-fury announcement greeted with attendant shock and awe: by cryptocurrency advocates who had dreamt of such a powerhouse getting behind their cause; by established payments players and their merchant customers excited by the convenience of non-government-controlled money transfers; and, less enthusiastically, by governments themselves, chagrined by the notion that Facebook might usurp their autho
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