Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
by pjc50 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:54AM
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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
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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.
The Libra proposal kept its value constant with respect to a basket of currencies.