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Facebook’s Digital Currency Venture “Diem”: the new Frontier. or a Galaxy far, far away?

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National governments and their central banks have traditionally enjoyed a kind of “monopoly” when it comes to deciding what counts as legal “currency”. Nowadays, people might show their “plastic” debit cards or their credit cards or even their smart phones. Others would have searched deep in their pocket and extracted coins.

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