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Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra may be a red line some people will refuse to cross
...Unlike Bitcoin it will be tied to the value of real-world currencies. A new subsidiary called Calibra that will offer the digital wallet for the Libra....
...Calibra will be a founding member of the nonprofit Libra Association, along with two dozen other companies and nonprofits, including including eBay, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal Holdings, Lyft, Uber and Kiva. ...
...Users may not be comfortable mixing Facebook and finance, especially in light of revelations last year that U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed 87 million Facebook users’ data....
...Most people (91%), in fact, said they wouldn’t trust Facebook to handle their payments, according to a 2018 survey of 1,000 adults by personal-finance site MagnifyMoney. Facebook launched a Messenger Payments feature in 2015, but this was not disclosed to the respondents, and the survey’s authors assumed they were either not aware of the payments service or did not currently use it. ...
...What’s more, some 79% of people said they did not use Messenger Payments, ...
...Mobile payments in the U.S. have lagged other major economies. ...
...“This is largely because many U.S. consumers are more comfortable paying with either a credit card or cash instead of their mobile device,”...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-a-w...o_homepage
Mal grob zusammengefasst, btw ich bin Paypal Aktionär....
...Unlike Bitcoin it will be tied to the value of real-world currencies. A new subsidiary called Calibra that will offer the digital wallet for the Libra....
...Calibra will be a founding member of the nonprofit Libra Association, along with two dozen other companies and nonprofits, including including eBay, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal Holdings, Lyft, Uber and Kiva. ...
...Users may not be comfortable mixing Facebook and finance, especially in light of revelations last year that U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed 87 million Facebook users’ data....
...Most people (91%), in fact, said they wouldn’t trust Facebook to handle their payments, according to a 2018 survey of 1,000 adults by personal-finance site MagnifyMoney. Facebook launched a Messenger Payments feature in 2015, but this was not disclosed to the respondents, and the survey’s authors assumed they were either not aware of the payments service or did not currently use it. ...
...What’s more, some 79% of people said they did not use Messenger Payments, ...
...Mobile payments in the U.S. have lagged other major economies. ...
...“This is largely because many U.S. consumers are more comfortable paying with either a credit card or cash instead of their mobile device,”...
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-a-w...o_homepage
Mal grob zusammengefasst, btw ich bin Paypal Aktionär....
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