What happened to Facebook's digital currency?
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, Facebook (now Meta) announced it was developing a digital currency called Libra. Just a couple of years later, the project was dead in the water. What happened?
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