Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
This is an interesting story and I would like to learn more about libra-coin.  Unfortunately I think hackernews has a strong anti-facebook bias that is making the opinions here nearly universally one sided.<p>I think we can say three things fairly uncontroversially in favor of this<p>1. The world could use an online independent currency<p>2. Adding stability to blockchain currencies and having that work on a large scale is a good thing<p>3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins.  Other people are still free to make their competing coins.<p>That said I understand the detractions that many here are presenting.  I just wish there could be a deeper exploration of both the pros and cons.