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Looks like you live in Portugal. Do you feel like no one is forcing you to use the euro?

> Who's even talking about replacing their national currency?

I’ve heard from people close to the project that this is Facebook’s explicit long term strategy. What else would their end game be here?



> I’ve heard from people close to the project

Oh, these anonymous sources which are proven to be highly reliable like... never?

> replace national currencies

They can have a strategy but that does not mean they are able to execute on it. Plus, by the time they get to a point where they endanger a local currency they would probably get a national ban in such countries. I mean what would you expect anything else?




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