Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: New facebook cryptocurrency truck system Date: 18 Jun 2019 18:30:57 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Wamd5FmMLGMlLwVXlWI4yAgoZxnGJBRWeQFFuZtvZl+WS3tdnR Cancel-Lock: sha1:guPxxxqbEHeu+73S837NidLmqSM= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:18240 On 2019-06-18, Steve555 wrote: > Today sees the launch of facebook's new cryptocurrency system. According to the > report in the guardian, people who work for the consortium of corporations > behind it are eventually expected to be paid in this cryptocurrency, > the Libra; see https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/18/ > what-is-libra-facebook-new-cryptocurrency Haven't read the article and likely won't. If Zuckerborg thinks I'm handing him my banking, too, he's got another think coming. But if the article is as much bollocks as the garbage being spouted by the BBC's "technology reporter" (whose qualifications, if any, were obviously in History of Art, or similar), then I wouldn't worry. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 23rd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3185 Rising above bedlam