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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by eswat on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:36PM (#20214921)
Platforms started by many people—thousands in this case—have way more leverage than a single person trying to do the same.

It may not be impossible, but in this case it should be sane to assume it would be a waste of energy for a single person to attempt it.

Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by matz1 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:58PM (#20215236)
Fb didn't start with thousand people, it start with zuck coding up (or maybe stole it) prototype in his bedroom
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by eswat on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:28AM (#20222370)
Should clarify: by this case I mean Libra, not Facebook.
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by matz1 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:43AM (#20222755)
Sure, doesn't change the fact that libra started by facebook and facebook started by one person, zuck.
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by eswat on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:41AM (#20223228)
I didn’t have Facebook,the social network way back, in my mind when trying to make my argument (I definitely should have made this clearer).

Remove the history behind Facebook and just look at the numbers of the LibraCoin consortium and you’re not dealing with just one person. That’s the lens someone wanting to make a competitor should be looking through, not that LibraCoin has a long thread tying back to “just” Zuck. That catalyst has little to do with the challenge of competing with LibraCoin as it has started today.

Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by matz1 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:34AM (#20223709)
I'm arguing against original argument that one person can't do anything against something big.

Any changes start from one person trying to do so. I'm arguing that’s the lens you should have in mind.