Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers

Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by cbisnett on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:22PM (#20179464)

Given the privacy issues and general data hoarding by Facebook, giving them additional access to purchase history and account balances seems like it’s going to make the problem worse without much upside.

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by tjpnz on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:37PM (#20179520)

Precisely why they're doing this.

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by qrbLPHiKpiux on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:24PM (#20179468)

WeChat v2.0

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by stcredzero on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:35PM (#20179514)

WeChat reduces the iPhone to "The thing we run WeChat on." It acts to commodify the iPhone. If Facebook is going to become another WeChat, this is just about the last thing that Apple wants!

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by delfinom on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:23PM (#20179704)

Hilariously, Apple is the most likely candidate to ban it and release their own.

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