{"id":39428,"date":"2019-06-18T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/?p=39428"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:56:50","slug":"lo-que-tenemos-que-entender-de-libra-la-criptomoneda-de-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/lo-que-tenemos-que-entender-de-libra-la-criptomoneda-de-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What we need to understand about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Facebook's efforts to increase its profits, after the privacy scandals that the Cambridge Analytica disclosure unleashed, has been to be an intermediary for payments and money exchanges. While PayPal co-founder (Peter Thiel) is in the\u00a0board of directors<\/em> of Facebook, it is not exactly an online payment platform that the technology giant is aiming for.<\/p>\n

Libra<\/strong>, a new cryptocurrency that is naturally potentiated by blockchain technology, would be Facebook's great initiative to solve its future in future years. While it is not the best or most interesting cryptocurrency, it would be the first large-scale effort and backed by other titans such as Uber, Visa, MasterCard, Lyft, Coinbase, MercadoPago, PayPal, eBay, Spotify and Stripe.<\/p>\n

We read in Hypertextual more about it:<\/a><\/p>\n

“La misi\u00f3n de Libra es hacer posible una moneda sencilla y global, as\u00ed como una infraestructura financiera que empodere a miles de millones de personas”, aseguran desde la compa\u00f1\u00eda. Para ello cuenta con el apoyo de decenas de empresas de renombre alrededor del mundo, que\u00a0they are expected to exceed one hundred by the time it is launched<\/strong>, que tendr\u00e1 lugar en la primera mitad de 2020. Es “una combinaci\u00f3n de dinero, justicia y libertad”, apuntan, tal y como recoge\u00a0Wired<\/a>, haciendo referencia a “la antigua unidad de medida romana, el s\u00edmbolo astrol\u00f3gico que representa la balanza de la justicia y su parecido fon\u00e9tico con el ‘libre’ franc\u00e9s”.<\/em><\/p>\n

While Libra is the name of the new currency, being regulated by notable investments from the aforementioned partners and others, Facebook would gain economically by promoting it as a (literally) currency as if it were the peso or dollar, to be acquired with money\u00a0real<\/em> and used for payments in the main app, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

The most obvious application would be to use Instagram as a sales platform for businesses and be an intermediary that suggests using Libra for some kind of discount.<\/p>\n

Prepare your business for the future<\/span><\/h4>
En lo que la adopci\u00f3n masiva de criptomonedas como Libra llega a los mostradores de todo M\u00e9xico, prepara desde dentro tu negocio con un sistema de Punto de Venta para que tengas los datos necesarios para vender con inteligencia \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n