"Wait and see" is a good approach to see whether your new electric city bus line is working or whether people prefer your website logo in red.
You can never, ever take back what became basic necessities on a nation level while being even remotely democratic. Once people have it, they won't give it back.
And you seriously think Facebook is to be given any such power, even after Cambridge Analytica? We're talking about currency, and billions of people. Lifes are very much at stake.
But sure, let's wait until Facebook uses Big financial data to get some populist party manipulated into power and a mere few thousand people die from the consequences, than be all enraged on reddit for a week and unable to change anything? I'll keep my typical German mindset, thanks
Crypto currencies are not going away and both Getmany and France are hurting their own entrepreneurs.
If Libra is going to be more economically than a typical bank, that will take many years and give plenty of time to react in case of problems. Also, it should first be up to the people for themselves to decide what means of payment they are using. The government should only intervene when the market fails.
In the beginning, it will be optional. But if/when everyone starts using it, most people won’t have a choice.
Protesters in Honk Kong did that too, to not be identified and tracked.
Protesters is US did that too to buy subway tickets, again, to avoid being tracked.
It's ok to pay in cash.
It's not that we go around with leather suitcases full of cash to buy tons of cocaine...