Re:What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
by thoughtfunction on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:24AM
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It's a multi-currency index fund consisting of deposits of currency from users. I think the goal is to make an international currency that would be stable across countries.
Re:What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
by mullingitover on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:45AM
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If it's pegged to multiple currencies, wouldn't that mean it's not stable against any currency?
Re:What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
by gremlinsinc on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:03AM
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The goal I believe is to be 1:1 in multiple currencies (or maybe 0.9:1 or 1.1:1 as close as possible -- so if you were to buy libra with japanese yen it would cost 1:1, or possibly they'd do it based on the highest of the pegged currencies, so if euro is highest they'd go w/ 1:1 euro, then when you cash out to usd directly from libra, you'd go off the current euro:usd differential.
It's definitely complicated, and I think going to be a management / development nightmare. The best thing would've been just go with USD, or Euro since those are the most used funds currently then have a built in forex exchange to instantly change local currencies to libra based on their usd/euro pairing rate.
Re:What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
by anonymous5133 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:55AM
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Yes it is true. From what I understand if there is an excessive amount of selling then they simply fund the withdraws by taking funds out of the reserves and simply "deleting" the libra tokens. Same story if there is lots of people buying. They simply put more into reserves to create new tokens. In theory they could actually put surplus reserves (over 100%) into the backing due to interest accumulation.
How can all these things be true? Are they just using these terms with the same freedom they use the word "crypto-currency"?.