How Facebook’s libra currency will work
20 June 2019 |
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Facebook unveiled plans for a new, global financial system with a broad group of partners from Visa to Uber on board to create a cryptocurrency it expects will one day trade much like the U.S. dollar and inject a new source of revenue.
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