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		jcampbell1 on Oct 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurre... Libra is meant to be the m-pesa of the world. It is funny that the US government and CIA haven’t figured out how much Libra will offer US hegemony. At some point Sandberg will explain it to the political dopes and Libra will happen. That day is not today. I don’t have time to explain this comment, but I am probably missing something in my thinking.

petre on Oct 5, 2019 | [–]

And that's exactly why it would be regulated by other countries. Like France who announced it would block it and then also talked Germany into doing the same.

asjw on Oct 5, 2019 | [–]

That's why EU is moving

US has never been weaker in the recent history, nobody helps the old lion.

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