The social media giant announced that it will launch its new cryptocurrency in the first half of 2020. As an investment, it’s likely to fall flat. Social media giant Facebook announced in June that it would launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, in the first half of next year .
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The Diem project, launched by Facebook as “Libra” in 2019, is shutting down following scrutiny from financial regulators . The so-called stablecoin was to be pegged to the US dollar.
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Facebook unveiled the Libra cryptocurrency in June 2019 . The crypto ecosystem has changed drastically since then. In particular, some stablecoins have become incredibly popular — Tether and USD Coin have a combined circulating supply of more than $100 billion right now.
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Facebook intended Diem to be a stablecoin which, as the name implies, is a type of cryptocurrency designed to be less of a financial rollercoaster, its value linked to less volatile assets such as national currencies or commodities .1 Şub 2022
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Facebook’s cryptocurrency is no more . The Diem Association — a group Facebook spearheaded to launch the Diem stablecoin — said Monday it will sell its intellectual property and assets to the California bank Silvergate, a go-to firm for the crypto industry.
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Libra is also being architected with some advantages over traditional cryptocurrencies. It will consume far less electricity than Bitcoin and is touted to have a higher throughput of 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) compared to bitcoin’s seven TPS and Ethereum’s 15 TPS.
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