Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project
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🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part of a permissioned blockchain project spearheaded by Facebook.
This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com
Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of. In a previous episode, he talked about how some venture capitalists are monkeying around by downplaying the killer applications of open blockchains in favor of… bananas. Now he makes us wonder whether Libra will even survive to become a production network. Is Silicon Valley coming for banking? Will Libra’s challenges have any impact on open public blockchains?
This talk took place on June 19th 2019 at the Scottish Blockchain Meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Episode Credits:
Today’s show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, with a little narration by Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine, as well as the live crowd and that guy with the great laugh about three quarters through.
Original Photo by Anna Tukhfatullina Food Photographer/Stylist on Unsplash
This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com
This episode featured music by Jared Rubens, Orfan and general fuzz. Production support was provided by Erica and Jessica, with sound editing by Dimitris of Sampi Media.
Want to hear more of Andreas’s Live talks? Check out new episodes every week on Unscrypted, or just head over to aantonop.com .
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| 0:49.4 | We're looking at a new world in which three forces are going to be competing. |
| 0:56.0 | Money of the people, money of the state, and money of the corporations. |
| 1:01.0 | That's a crossroads. |
| 1:02.0 | We have to make some very careful choices. |
| 1:08.0 | What started with Libra kicked the race towards central bank digital currencies into high gear, |
| 1:12.3 | but the topic and implications are much bigger than that. |
| 1:16.1 | My name is Adam B. Levine. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm the creator of Let's Talk Bitcoin, a compulsive entrepreneur, and most recently an editor |
| 1:21.5 | at CoinDest.com. |
| 1:23.4 | On today's episode, Let's Talk Bitcoin, we listen in as host Andreas M. Ansonoplas takes the stage |
| 1:28.0 | in Scotland to discuss Facebook's Leeper Project, announced in the days before this talk. |
| 1:32.9 | From corporate currencies to K.C, we've got some important choices in our future, and |
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