Facebook plans to launch GlobalCoin in 2020, its own cryptocurrency

Called for the moment GlobalCoin, This virtual money project, initially revealed by Bloomberg in December, will be tested internally by the end of the year, before being published in a dozen countries, reveals the British media, which adds that Facebook will give more details "this summer." boreal.

GlobalCoin will use technology & # 39; & # 39 ;, blockchain a kind of huge public and unforgettable record that allows a fast, anonymous and secure transfer of virtual currency.

This technology is used by the vast majority of crypto-currencies, including Bitcoin.

But, unlike this one, the price of the GlobalCoin could be indexed on a basket of real currencies in order to limit its volatility, characteristic of the crypto-currencies which generally cause a rejection.

At the same time, the Financial Times also revealed Friday, according to two well-informed sources, that Facebook had contacted "at least two cryptocurrency trading platforms, Coinbase and Gemini, through which users could keep their currency Facebook, or convert it to other "virtual or real" currencies.