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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by aazaa on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:47AM (#20971116)
How so?

The Libra proposal kept its value constant with respect to a basket of currencies.

Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by pjc50 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:54AM (#20971163)
Not quite the same kind of inflation hedge as "free floating" limited-issue cryptocurrencies then?

(This is one of the things that confuses me about Libra's target market; if you believe the cryptocurrency marketing about privacy and permissionlessness and inflation-hedging, then Libra is terrible at those things. If you don't, and you're in Europe, you just use SEPA.)

Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by raverbashing on Saturday September 14, 2019 @11:18AM (#20971309)
You can only keep the value of something "constant" (or pegged to something) if it's not non-freely negotiable and you can tightly control it.
Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by kazen44 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:50AM (#20971136)
because the german example is tied to the currency used by germany (and the eurozone as a whole).