Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp

I forget who said that when marketers highlight a certain feature of a product, it is specifically because that feature is what the product is bad at. If they say “our detergent won’t dry out your skin”, it’s because detergent dries out your skin.

So that’s something to bear in mind when a company with a history of chaotic mass experimentation on the mechanics of society announces a new type of currency with “stable” in the name.

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