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by laurent123456 2563 days ago
What's the use case for it? It looks like the point is to send money from people to people easily. But how about businesses? Currently I can pay with Contactless in shops, and on online services, paying by debit/credit card is straightforward. So I'm not seeing exactly what it will be used for.
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More data mining?
Yes I don't expect Facebook to do anything for the greater good, however they still need to convince people to use it, and I'm curious what's the plan. "More data mining" won't cut it on their press release :)

Well I guess at this point they can pretty much force people to use the currency (by not giving any other payment options) since people are locked into their platform and won't leave no matter what Facebook do.