I don't like Libra as much as possible but this could just another stunt to get the mass' attention.
It doesn't exist, theoretical whitepaper by MIT ...
... "Alexander Lipton, a connection science fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and adjunct professor of mathematics at New York University, has claimed that Libra’s white paper copied concepts for a coin proposed in his academic work." ...
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Told you so ...
Correct. Bitcoin is not mentioned in the Libra Whitepaper ...
- https://libra.org/en-US/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/06/LibraWhitePaper_en_US.pdf
However, it is mentioned in the Libra Blockchain paper ...
- https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-blockchain.pdf
Pages. 4, 6, 10 and 14 as well as in the References ...
[23]
“Leaf-node weakness in Bitcoin merkle tree design,”
https://bitslog.com/2018/06/09/leaf-node-weakness-in-bitcoin-merkle-tree-design/ .
[24]
S. Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,”
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, 2008.
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Regina Spektor - "Us"
- https://youtu.be/fczPlmz-Vug
*Sings*
...We're living in a den of thieves
Rummaging for answers in the pages
We're living in a den of thieves...
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"Lying is tough to make stick..."
- https://twitter.com/blockofgenesis/status/1148997641587396611