If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives

Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by tshanmu on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:07AM (#20262204)

How can you be sure - if they almost become quasi-goverments - they will surely have quasi-law-enforcement?

A ban by facebook could literally be lifethreatening?

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Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by mehrdadn on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:14AM (#20262248)

> How can you be sure

Same way I can be "sure" my bank is going to keep my money safe and give it to me when I need it?

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Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:13AM (#20262683)

Could you be more clear about your intended meaning. From this you might mean "I can't be sure", or you might mean "the government will step in to prevent it", or you might actually think your bank will keep your money safe, or ...

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Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by mehrdadn on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:21AM (#20262746)

Do I have to pick one?

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Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by pbhjpbhj on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:31AM (#20262834)

Now you're just trolling.

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Re:If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can... by mehrdadn on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:37AM (#20262881)

Wasn't intending to. I'm pretty serious.

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