Details about Libra were announced today. According to the article, PayPal and Uber are among the companies that will control the new currency. What’s your take on Libra and how it will be managed? Do you think people will adopt it? https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733701971/facebook-unveils-libra-cr...Read more
Thoughts? I find it hard to imagine why a consumer would be interested in this https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/technology/facebook-cryptocurrency-libra.html
Seems significant. What happens to the engineers working on the project? Looks like David Marcus bailed last year. Link (sorry for paywall): https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebooks-cryptocurrency-venture-to-wind-down-sell-assets-11643248799
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1486140483390816258
Edit: Basically I am asking for any insight you might have on how it's like to work on crypto as a FB engineer #facebook #meta #crypto #rust #bootcamp
- Trump or Powell not a big fan of crypto - FB Libra questioned by Senate - Bitcoin touching 9k
2019 FB launches Libra, cryPTo is THE fUtUre !!! 2021 Abandon Libra MeTAversE is the FUTure !!! 2023 AI is tHE FUTuRe!!! We are an AI fIRST CoMpAnY 😎 Go LAMs! Maybe Meta should be called LAY 🤔 Recognizing the long term vision of its management that Layoffs are the future What will Meta renam...Read more
Facebook plans June 18th cryptocurrency debut. 'Libra coin'? Are there any actual use cases for it?
Why? Is this a good move? Or a decision they'll regret? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/07/paypal-pulls-out-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency
^^^ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/ebay-drops-out-of-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-one-week-after-paypal.html
Facebook just announced it's new crypto currency - Libra. What do you think will be it's impact on the world economy?
Facebook announcing their Cryptocurrency Libra this week. They’re thinking about using it to pay their employees. Don’t know to how to feel about companies making their own currency to pay employees.
Looking to break into the industry. 14 years of finance experience, but more recently on the operations and servicing side. Have a tech background in systems and database management. Looking to get into this exciting field. #bitcoin #libra #crypto #career
Asking for my brother. Curious on insights to the risk teams / working at Novi @ Facebook. Has anyone moved from risk management in fin servs to tech? What is your experience? Currently in the corporate risk team at Schwab, mainly qualitative risk responsibilities. I have an Operational / Enterpris...Read more
TCs are still going through negotiations. But it looks like this atm TC: Snap >; FB >;= Uber Uber is offering UberX distributed systems team. Will be re-writing 2 tier 0-1 services. I'll get hands on work on distributed systems! Office will be in SF in financial district. Eventually will move
Then there's the option to purchase shares of companies developing or making use of blockchain technology, such as Walmart or Starbucks. Incorporating a digital ledger system can make a company leaner and more profitable, and higher profits equal higher share prices over the long term. But there ar...Read more