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Facebook's new cryptocurrency

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Unlike Bitcoin, Libra will not be a decentralized coin as it would be managed and run by Facebook and its financial backers.

In Henley Business School's Leading Insight, Dr Andrew Urquhart discusses the new cryptocurrency and the problems facing Bitcoin.

Read the full piece here.

Professor Andrew Urquhart

Professor of Finance and Financial Technology
Published 20 June 2019
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