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I mean... Are they kidding me with that name?
by gear54rus 7y ago
I mean... Are they kidding me with that name?
- giancarlostoro 7y agoMeans pound in Spanish. As if it holds any weight in the real world. Alt Timeline: Zuckerberg becomes POTUS in 2018. By 2020 he becomes POTKW and conquers all countries with just the information he knows about people on Facebook.
- nyolfen 7y agowhat do you think is weird or bad about it? it's a pretty appropriate name for a currency
- mirimir 7y agoSure, but not one owned by Facebook. It's a sick joke.
- ryacko 7y agoAre you saying Facebook will tip the scales in the wrong direction?
- nyolfen 7y agoare you confusing it with libre?
- dang 7y agoOk, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
- mirimir 7y agoSorry. If I had explained, I don't think that it would have been unsubstantive. But I didn't. So anyway, to the point. As the sign of balance, symbolized by scales, Libra is certainly relevant to money. But the name is also a riff on liberty/liberation aka freedom. And that's the sick joke, because Libre will be totally under Facebook control.
- tiagobraw 7y agoLibra is the portuguese word for pound sterling
- nyolfen 7y agoit's the latin word for a scale and is the root of many money-related words in european languages
- m-i-l 7y agoIncluding the British pound - until decimalisation in 1971, the abbreviations for pounds, shillings and pence were Lsd (with the L often having a single or double cross bar) from the Latin libra, solidus and denarius respectively.