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by anonytrary 2443 days ago
It's just a technology. There's nothing stopping a company from creating a private blockchain (using trusted nodes) and using it as a backend ledger for their website.

The fuss is that even if Facebook fully decentralizes Libra, they'll probably own an undisclosed amount of it. One entity starting with most of the wealth defeats the purpose of decentralization.