<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Agreed, Libra according to Facebook will largely be backed by USD so it is really a Corporate manifestation of the eDollar; plus we are talking about a generational play here driven globally by millennial's and younger they are looking(demanding) for both convenience and choice.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>They will run to whichever e-currency(s) have both, which is why its a race...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:05 PM Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">It will be hard to dislodge the dollar. Federal Reserve Bank cas create a dollar serve stablecoin and tht will end the debate</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 9:34 AM mauxdatabase via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Libra will probably launch when China rolls-out their digital currency via TenCent and AliPay.<div><br></div><div>Its an inevitability that the Worlds next reserve currency will be an Internet Currency so the race is on....</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:53 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">@Willis<div><br></div><div>Facebook went to great lengths to assure partners it won’t control Libra. To the extent of creating a consortium with representation across the divide. I guess they failed to dispense the fears of regulators and policy makers. I’m very convinced that the pressure to leave the Libra Consortium came from other quarters other than the reasons being given by those who are now bailing out after paying $10 million to join the Libra Consortium. </div><div><br></div><div>Read more about the Libra Consortium below.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 23 Jan 2020, at 8:50 PM, Willis Muriu via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">For me, the one major issue was that it was "controlled" by Facebook (centralized) unlike Bitcoin (decentralized.)<div><br></div><div>Another reason, I think, is because it proved to be serious competition to the Dollar, and you have heard what happens when you challenge the Dollar.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Willis Muriu</div><div>+254 715 530 349<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:37 PM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">Interesting...Most of the incumbent players are one by one abandoning Libra. What gives? Pressure from regulators? </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2019/10/21/here-are-all-the-companies-that-bailed-on-facebooks-libra/#674681de3487" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Here</a> are some of the other companies that have bailed out on Libra. The list includes <span style="background-color:rgb(252,252,252);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Mercado Pago and eBay.</span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="2"><br></font></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Pressure from regulators and policy makers is real.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Regards</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="2"><br></font></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="2">Ali
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