In mid-June, Facebook in cahoots with 28 partners in the financial and tech sectors announced plans to introduce Libra, a blockchain-based virtual currency.
The worlds governments and central banks reacted quickly with calls for investigation and regulation. Their concerns are quite understandable, but unfortunately already addressed in Libras planned structure.
The problem for governments and central banks:
A new currency with no built-in respect for political borders, and with a preexisting global user base of 2.4 billion Facebook users in nearly every country on Earth, could seriously disrupt the control those institutions exercise over our finances and our lives.
The accommodation Facebook is already making to those concerns:
Libra is envisaged as a stablecoin, backed by the currencies and debt instruments of those governments and central banks themselves and administered through a permissioned blockchain ledger by equally centralized institutions (Facebook itself, Visa, Mastercard, et al.).
Read more :
https://paperblockchain.com/facebooks-libra-isnt-a-cryptocurrency/Just because they use the blockchain technology, they now consider the coins as crypto currency. Yeah, it might be a crypto currency, but it is just a centralized coin which will be heavily regulated. In other words, it is paypal but using blockchain to perform transactions. "Stable coin", "centralized" and "regulated". All three words most of the bitcoin enthusiasts hate.