{"id":39956,"date":"2023-09-21T00:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/libras-co-creator-had-geopolitical-motivations-to-build-the-digital-currency-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T00:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:55:22","slug":"libras-co-creator-had-geopolitical-motivations-to-build-the-digital-currency-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/libras-co-creator-had-geopolitical-motivations-to-build-the-digital-currency-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Libra\u2019s co-creator had geopolitical motivations to build the digital currency | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><h2 class=\"article__subtitle\">\u201cWhat got me out of bed every morning was China\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper \">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Morgan Beller, the<\/span> co-creator of Meta\u2019s now-defunct Libra digital currency project, revealed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 that \u201cwhat got [her] out of bed every morning [at the time] was China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case that wasn\u2019t explicit enough, Beller directly referred to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belt_and_Road_Initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belt and Road Initiative<\/a>, which is considered a centerpiece of China\u2019s foreign policy. Spicy, isn\u2019t it? Let\u2019s unpack this.<\/p>\n<p>First, a caveat: Beller prefaced her comments with a disclaimer that she wasn\u2019t talking on behalf of Meta; she is now a general partner <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/22\/morgan-beller-co-creator-of-the-libra-digital-currency-just-joined-the-venture-firm-nfx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at venture firm NFX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it adds new context to Libra \u2014 and Meta \u2014 to know that its co-creator was motivated by geopolitical concerns about the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/09\/20\/libra-facebook-crypto-political-motivations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat got me out of bed every morning was China\u201d Morgan Beller, the co-creator of Meta\u2019s now-defunct Libra digital currency project, revealed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 that \u201cwhat got [her] out of bed every morning [at the time] was China.\u201d In case that wasn\u2019t explicit enough, Beller directly referred to the Belt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}