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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by Ahmed90 on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:43AM (#20182492)
Everyone here is debating is it crypot or not... but does it matter? it's Facebook after all, we are (the typical techy user) not the target audience.

Unfortunately, it's going to sell just because it's the big old facebook, your non-techy friend probably don't know the difference between crypto and food stamps all they know it's points for money, one is a boring piece of paper and the other is cool futuristic out of the matrix Bitcoin like super numbers

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by julianlam on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:26AM (#20182754)
Didn't Facebook try something like this years and years ago in the form of Facebook credits, going so far as to even disallowing apps from having their own currency?

I wonder how this is different, besides the whole "blockchain" bit, because otherwise it's just a rehashed idea with makeup on it.

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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by Ahmed90 on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:35AM (#20182828)
That was around 2010 iirc, before it was cool.
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