- NZD - New Zealand dollar
- USD - United States dollar
- AUD - Australian dollar
- XRP - Ripples
- STR - Stellar
- BTC (XBT) - Bitcoin
“You had to have a Facebook account, and there are certain checks to make sure that an account was not created before our launch. Also, more checks have been added,” she said. "I would say that a lot of that was overblown."
One key difference is that 95% of the currency is being given away for free at the outset, the bulk of it from an initial issuance of 100 billion coins created by the not-for-profit foundation that will run the project. New coins will be later added at no cost to the circulation at a rate of 1% per year.