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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by johnnycab on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:03AM (#20223987)
>As far as I know, in the U.S. you are free to print your own paper currency

This is not the case, when a 'private' currency gains traction or seemingly encroaches a territory, which is traditionally assigned to government ─ it gets shutdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator...

https://www.openpr.com/news/25136/TUC-IMPROVING-THE-US-ECONO...

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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by aatharuv on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:09PM (#20225610)
They called their currency a dollar. If they had called them "freedom rounds", they would have been fine.

Or if they had been owned by Disney for that matter...

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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by 411mrc on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:51PM (#20227193)
http://www.berkshares.org/

It's been around for a long time.

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