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EBay CEO Says Crypto Assets Poised to Play Major Role in the Way Money Moves

by Daily Hodl Staff
July 22, 2019
in Blockchain

The CEO of eBay is shedding light on the e-commerce giant’s decision to back Facebook’s digital asset Libra.

In a new interview with CNBC, Devin Wenig says he believes crypto assets will begin playing a major role in global commerce over the next decade.

“The hearings made it pretty clear that there are two things nobody understands yet everybody fears: Facebook and cryptocurrency. I would say we are sponsors of this in part because crypto and blockchain, in particular, have great promise to run a public, distributed blockchain to reduce cost, increase transparency and improve security. People still pay too much to move money around and to settle and clear that money. It’s a big cost for digital marketplaces – the ridesharing, the homesharing and the commerce marketplaces.

So the promise of the blockchain is that on behalf of the merchants that sell on those marketplaces, we can reduce cost and improve transparency. Will Libra work? I think Libra is speculative. We all know that. But it is promising. And it’s worth a try. And I think legitimate questions have been raised by regulators. We’ll let Facebook respond to those.

But I think we might be losing the forest for the trees. A well-run public blockchain that the marketplaces adopt could do immense good. It could create competition in money transfer. It could create enhanced security. And that money will go back in the pockets of small businesses in the United States. So let’s not lose the big picture, which is crypto should play an important role in the way money moves, particularly in digital businesses in the next decade.”

Although Facebook says its digital asset Libra will eventually become public and decentralized five years after its initial launch, chief strategy officer at CoinShares, Meltem Demirors, questions how the social media giant will get that done.

In her recent testimony to Congress, Demirors explained why Libra in its current form is far from a cryptocurrency.

“Libra is not a cryptocurrency. I’m not here to pass judgment on Facebook or its efforts and I commend their altruistic aspirations. But they are just that: aspirations. First, Bitcoin is decentralized, which means no entity or group has the power to block or censor the use of the network. Libra is centralized. A small group of companies will have the ability to block and censor transactions. Second, Bitcoin is its own asset, backed by its own scarcity and the demand for it. There is no entity that holds assets that give Bitcoin value. Libra, in contrast, is backed by a pool of assets that are domiciled abroad. Asset management is a regulated activity. Lastly, Bitcoin is permissionless, meaning anyone in any part of the world has the ability to enter and exit the network without requiring permission. Libra, is permissioned. The Libra network is controlled by a private group who will determine who has permission to access this network…

If Facebook aspires to create this open, permissionless consortium that everyone can benefit from, then why is the selection process opaque and why does it only involve affiliates and associates of Facebook and its executives? That would be my question.”

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