Libra’s Dirty Secret: Blockchain Firm Claims Facebook Stole its Crypto Model

By CCN Markets: Blockchain company Hedera took an ad out in this morning’s Wall Street Journal thanking Facebook for flattering them with their copycat governance model. The ad reads: “Thank you Facebook Libra. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Facebook: Stealing Logos and Governance Models Since 2018 The move brings to mind Apple’s 1981 Wall Street Journal jab at IBM: It then features a classic Facebook “thumbs-up” like symbol. Hedera is a company built on the Hashgraph distributed ledger technology – the relationship is similar to Charles Hoskinson’s IOHK and Cardano. Interested readers can sign up for a testnet

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Source: https://www.ccn.com/crypto/facebook-libras-dirty-secret-blockchain-company-jacked-crypto-model/2019/06/22/

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