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Chain CEO On B2B Payments’ Blockchain Blockbuster

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And that can make the blockchain a bit scary, particularly when combined with the fact that its most well-known and famous application is bitcoin — the international cybercriminals’ currency of choice. The best one can do and should do is read and study … the original Satoshi bitcoin whitepaper and master that.

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The 4 Key Clues To Understanding The Future Of Facebook’s Libra

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The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network. What isn’t helping – and I am sure that Facebook has had this same thought – is bitcoin’s surge post-Libra’s launch. But as I said in my original piece , they couldn’t have made it any more complicated.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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Square Cash enables P2P payments and takes in funds – now including bitcoin deposits. The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network. What isn’t helping – and I am sure that Facebook has had this same thought – is bitcoin’s surge post-Libra’s launch.

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What We’ve Learned From Libra

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Except that’s not what the Libra whitepaper says. The first two sentence in that whitepaper goes like this: “Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. Particularly when it’s not at all clear that the people Libra says it launched its network to help – those 1.5