Should We Trust Facebook's New Cryptocurrency?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 19, 2019

Nathaniel Popper, finance and technology reporter for the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times, and author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, breaks down Facebook's new crypto currency, Libra. Plus, what the company hopes you'll do with it.

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