An MIT fellow and NYU math professor says Libra copied off of his co-authored paper

Alexander Lipton, a connection science fellow at MIT and adjunct professor of mathematics at NYU), has claimed that Libra’s whitepaper copied concepts for a coin proposed in his academic work. Lipton co-authored the paper “Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency” in 2018. In a July 26 interview with CoinDesk, Lipton said:

“Without being particularly obnoxious, I can tell you that the actual structure of Libra is pretty much lifted verbatim from the paper which Sandy Pentland and Thomas Hardjono and I published last year.”