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Podcast: The Peter McCormack Show
Episode: Bill Barhydt on Libra: The Dawn of Corporate Money - WBD143
Description: Location: Palo Alto Date: Wednesday, 24th August Project: Abra Role: CEO & Founder Facebook announced in June that they would be launching Libra, with the mission of enabling a "simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people". Libra proposes a permissioned blockchain, meaning that unlike Bitcoin it isn't a decentralised project as control over the network is governed by the Libra Association. With these unique properties, Libra doesn't fit into the government-issued fiat financial model or the decentralised and trustless Bitcoin model instead. Libra is the dawn of a new...