Here is all you need to know about Facebook’s cryptocurrency libra

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Libra will be compatible with Messenger and Whatsapp

One of the things Facebook highlights on the website calibra.com, which was released on Tuesday, is how easy it will be to use the currency. It will be possible to send in Messenger, Whatsapp, and other Facebook apps.

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It costs $10 million to invest in

In what one can assume is a way to give the currency credibility, Facebook has invited a number of large companies to back the currency. Trijo News wrote about this earlier today.

To back the currency, companies have to pay $10 million, and for this, they get their own node on the libra blockchain. Among the companies invited to do this are Visa, Mastercard, and Uber.

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Calibra, libra, what’s really what?

Libra is the name of the cryptocurrency itself. Calibra is the wallet where you store and can send your coins. Calibra is also the name of the subsidiary that Facebook has started to handle the app, while the Libra Association is the Swiss-based nonprofit organization that manages queries related to the currency itself, and which is governed by the companies that have gone in and backed libra. Confusing, we know.

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It’s being launched in 2020

However, exactly when during next year it will be launched has not yet been announced, according to The Verge.

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Libra is open source

Other developers than Facebook and the companies that back the project will be able to build services that use libra’s blockchain, writes Coindesk.

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This is just the start, according to Facebook

At launch, users will only be able to transfer money to other people. But the plan is that one should also be able to pay for services and pay invoices in the new cryptocurrency, Coindesk writes.

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