Nearly one-third of Earth’s population, some 2.4 billion people, use Facebook every month.
With that kind of reach, the social media giant’s new cryptocurrency, Libra, could become big enough overnight to be deemed “systemically important,” or large enough that its failure might threaten the financial system, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee last week.
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