Libra

David Marcus, whose payments-focused career has included stints at PayPal and Meta, is now leading Lightspark to propel Bitcoin adoption.

China’s centralized blockchains couldn’t be any farther from Bitcoin’s. Designed for maximum control, they will become tools for improved surveillance and social engineering.

People will quickly realize that libra, a digital U.S. dollar or any other centralized digital currency will not improve their finances or well-being.

As in the legend of William Tell, Mark Zuckerberg better prove to be a good shot if people are going to trust libra as much as they trust bitcoin.

China’s central bank digital currency has begun a “restricted access test” to simulate payment scenarios between parties.

A recently published economic research paper argues that a global cryptocurrency would make international monetary policy impossible.

A source tied to China’s central bank has pushed back against reports about the country’s central bank digital currency.

Binance’s Venus stablecoin project has been described as the “one-belt-one-road” version of Libra.

Alex Tapscott, co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, on his upcoming report, Facebook’s libra and why bitcoin is an “unstoppable force.”

In a video conference, the People’s Bank of China stated that it will accelerate the research and development of its fiat digital currency.