The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra
Jun 19, 2019•15 min
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Episode description
Near the end of 2017, on a Dominican Republic beach with his family, Facebook executive David Marcus wrestled with a question he’d been pondering since his previous job as president of PayPal. How would you build the internet of money? A friction-free global digital currency would be a boon for the many people with mobile phones but no access to banking.
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