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There aren’t enough public details yet but I think the “blockchain” part is really just between all of the partners, not between the users. So when user A in th
by AJ007 7y ago
There aren’t enough public details yet but I think the “blockchain” part is really just between all of the partners, not between the users. So when user A in the US sends to user B in Pakistan, the activity is really only between the two parties which converted the local currencies from the end users. That wouldn’t be particular different from user A sending a Western Union payment to user B in Pakistan.
Conceivably Facebook has all of this user history and is able to make a guess if someone is a real person. Probably they know a lot more than a bank would know. That could take care of some aspects of the KYC issues too.
Using the word cryptocurrency is fairly misleading, because as far as I can tell, it isn’t really one. Blockchain, maybe, but I don’t even know what that word means.
- justinmchase 7y agoThats right, its not distributed like bitcoin but all of the nodes are "trusted" by each other and the block chain itself would only be accessible for users and you would not be able to add a node without being a massive corporation which invests and joins their consortium. No idea how new companies are supposed to rise with these players securing their monopoly like this.