"As of today, Libra has made a bold promise, and it’s one that Facebook needs to keep. Until then, Libra is like a centralized wolf in a decentralized sheep’s clothing."
Joe Lubin's public statement on Libra. TBH it's not saying that much.
"If it is to eventually become a decentralized currency where anyone can participate, Facebook made the right initial step to release technical documentation and partial access to the codebase through an Apache 2.0 license. We’ve already had developers at ConsenSys exploring the code, and we have set up some nodes. The technical implementation borrows a lot of ideas from Ethereum and other public blockchains, as do so many other blockchain-based platforms."
Awesome. Good to know. But where is Ethereum's strategy? Just hope it all works out? I sense a weird complacency in the ecosystem with the entrance of Libra. Yeah, it's vindicating, but calling Facebook a centralized wolf in decentralized sheep's clothing is literally not saying anything we don't know.