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Daily Crunch: A closer look at Facebook and Libra

Daily Crunch: A closer look at Facebook and Libra

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch's roundup of our biggest and most important stories. Facebook unveiled a cryptocurrency called Libra yesterday. Romain Dillet looks at the company's announcement and concludes that the current governance model and blockchain implementation seems closer to banks than bitcoin.