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Is Facebook’s Libra Really A Cryptocurrency? Maybe Not

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Facebook officially announced its Libra cryptocurrency earlier this week, and analysts are starting to weigh in on it. The social networking firm describes Libra as a "global currency and financial infrastructure," add that it will "reinvent money" and "transform the global economy." The release statement about Facebook's Libra is full of buzzwords and feel-good terms, but is it really a cryptocurrency? And will it really do everything the company claims it will do? Opinions vary widely.

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What is Facebook's Libra?

According to the company's press release, Libra will enable users to move money...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.