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“He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Write like yourself, only more so.”
― Marc Laidlaw, Underneath the Oversea

“The fallacy of Libra, and of cryptocurrency plans in general, is that the problem isn’t that we need a new technology. We know how to move numbers on a computer. The problems with Libra were always going to be regulation — especially when the project came from Facebook. Crypto dreams are tolerated when they’re put forward by weird small-time nutters — but not when they’re coming from a huge company with a continent-sized user base. But, even though every single thing about Libra went wrong, Facebook doesn’t take “no” or “never” for an answer.”
― David Gerard, Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money

“Developers could use the “credit_balance” interface to see how many Credits a user had309 — and Facebook confirmed that developers could use this to identify the biggest Credit holders, and squeeze them for even more money.”
― David Gerard, Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money