由于监管机构的压力越来越大，马克扎克伯格建立自己的加密货币的雄心勃勃的计划正在分崩离析。
根据彭博社周三上午发布的一份报告，负责监督 Diem 数字货币开发的 Diem 协会正在考虑出售其资产，以便将资金返还给投资者。
Diem 协会的一位发言人拒绝置评。 Facebook 的母公司 Meta 没有回应置评请求。
据报道，吴廷琰正在与投资银行家就下一步措施进行谈判，包括如何出售其知识产权，以获取剩余的价值。与彭博社交谈的消息人士称，该公司还试图为开发这项技术的工程师寻找新的目的地。
讨论显然仍处于早期阶段，不能保证 Diem 会找到买家。即便如此，报告指出，目前尚不清楚它将如何为项目的知识产权或开发它的工程师设定价值。
一位不愿透露姓名的人士向彭博社表示，Meta 拥有该合资企业约三分之一的股份，其余股份由安德森霍洛维茨、Union Square Ventures 和 Ribbit Capital 等协会成员所有。
自 2019 年 6 月首次宣布以来，扎克伯格陷入困境的加密项目一直受到戏剧性的阻碍。
当时，这种加密货币被称为 Libra，最初被设想为一种稳定币，它是一种特定的加密货币子集，其价值与现实世界的资产挂钩，例如美元等法定货币或黄金等商品。以扎克伯格的稳定币为例，最初的计划是推出一种与一篮子主要货币和政府债务挂钩的通用货币。
该项目立即遭到中央银行家和政界人士的敌视，他们担心这可能会助长洗钱和侵犯隐私等邪恶活动，并成为美元等主权货币的强大竞争对手。在监管反弹之后，陷入困境的项目转向推出多种稳定币的概念，每种稳定币都将与一种法定货币和一种多币种硬币挂钩。
最终，加密货币的愿景被精简为一种美元支持的稳定币，称为 Diem USD。
该项目本身也遵循了一个有些复杂的所有权链，并遭受了企业合作伙伴和高层管理人员的外流。
它也曾经得到多个合作伙伴的支持，但随着 Meta 负责人前往国会山捍卫该项目，Visa、万事达卡和 PayPal 等主要支持者放弃了该项目。去年 11 月，Meta 加密货币项目负责人大卫·马库斯宣布他也将离开。
Mark Zuckerberg's botched cryptocurrency project is reportedly for sale
Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious plan to build his own cryptocurrency is falling apart, amid growing pressure from regulators.
The Diem Association, which oversees development of the Diem digital currency, is considering a sale of its assets, in order to return capital to its investors, according to a Bloomberg report released Wednesday morning.
A spokesperson for the Diem Association declined to comment. Facebook's parent company, Meta, did not respond to a request for comment.
Diem is reportedly in talks now with investment bankers about next steps, including how to sell its intellectual property, in an effort to capture whatever value is left. Sources speaking to Bloomberg say that the company is also trying to find a new destination for the engineers who developed this technology.
Discussions are apparently still in early stages, and there is no guarantee that Diem will find a buyer. Even if it does, the report noted that it is unclear how it would set a value on the project's intellectual property, or the engineers who developed it.
One of the people speaking to Bloomberg under condition of anonymity says that Meta owns about a third of the venture, and the remainder is owned by association members, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital.
Zuckerberg's beleaguered crypto project has been stymied by drama since it was first announced in June 2019.
At the time, the cryptocurrency was called Libra, and it was initially conceived of as a stablecoin, which is a specific subset of cryptocurrencies that have a value pegged to a real-world asset, such as a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar or a commodity like gold. In the case of Zuckerberg's stablecoin, the initial plan was to launch a universal currency tied to a basket of major currencies and government debt.
The project was instantly met with hostility from central bankers and politicians, who feared it might facilitate nefarious activities such as money laundering and privacy infringement, as well as prove a formidable rival to sovereign currencies like the U.S. dollar. In the wake of regulatory backlash, the embattled project pivoted to the concept of launching multiple stablecoins, each of which would be pegged to a fiat currency, plus one multicurrency coin.
Ultimately, the vision for the cryptocurrency was slimmed down to a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin known as Diem USD.
The project itself has also followed a somewhat convoluted chain of ownership and suffered an exodus of corporate partners and top-level executives.
It also once had the backing of multiple partners, but as the Meta chief headed to Capitol Hill to defend the project, key backers like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal abandoned the project. In November of last year, David Marcus, the head of Meta's cryptocurrency efforts, announced that he, too, would be leaving.
