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		godzillabrennus on June 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers It’s Mark “I’m CEO B!t(h” Zuckerberg. Do you think he’d start a currency he wouldn’t be able to use to spy on every user?

ddtaylor on June 14, 2019 [–]

I'm not really interested in the spying aspect of it, since most cryptocurrencies make all transaction information public in their blockchains.

My interest is in who controls issuance of the currency itself and if that control is decentralized or controlled by a central entity, like Facebook.

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