Zuckerberg's plea for Libra, now called Diem, suggests Facebook is leaning more towards the kind of e-cash offered by PayPal or Alibaba than the revolutionary crypto dreams of Bitcoiners.
After Libra launched in June 2019, politicians and regulators raised concerns about privacy, money laundering and companies like Facebook taking power away from central banks.
Facebook’s Libra clearly demonstrates a demand for cheaper and faster global payments service. RBI must accelerate its research on payment methods to serve this demand.
Given Facebook's failures around privacy, a near-unanimous notion among US lawmakers is that the tech giant shouldn’t be trusted to create a new global currency.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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