Facebook’s head of Calibra, David Marcus, stands up for his high profile project Libra saying that he still expects over one hundred banks and financial institutions to believe in his dream – the Libra stablecoin. October was one of the darkest months for the grand-scale project as the social media company Facebook lost some of its biggest supporters, namely Visa, Paypal, Mastercard, and Stripe, following regulatory pressures from the US government. The pressure kept building on the project and its team members as the US lawmakers fought for its shutdown with an almost combative style. Extreme skepticism from policymakers, coupled
