Facebook’s Digital Currency Venture “Diem”: the new Frontier ... or a Galaxy far, far away?

Abstract

1. IntroductionThanks to technological advances, new forms of electronic currency are now possible and already available. In particular, distributed ledger-based digital “blockchain” technology now offers a secure transaction-oriented system free from censorship and control by central government powers. This technology, invented by a pseudonymous figure (or team) “Satoshi