Visa , Mastercard , Stripe and eBay have welcomed PayPal ’s withdrawal from Facebook ’s libra crypto project , saying they respected the scheme but want to focus on other things . Stripe and Visa , however , remain open to becoming involved again in the future . Questions have been raised about how libra would impact sovereign currencies and what protection consumers would have . Libra will be part of a House Financial Services Committee sitting later in January 2019 that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg . The Libra Association , however , has said it is still willing to move forward .
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and eBay have joined PayPal’s withdrawal from Facebook’s libra crypto project, saying they respected the scheme but want to focus on other things. Stripe and Visa, however, remain open to becoming involved again in the future. Questions have been raised about how libra would impact sovereign currencies and what protection consumers would have. Libra will be part of a House Financial Services Committee sitting later in October 2019 that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Libra Association, however, has said it is still planning to move forward.