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I have waited to hear what Zuck thinks about Bitcoin. That is great!

He is a manchild and I bet his only interest in bitcoin is the fact that the Winklvoss twins 'own 1% of bitcoins.' Just like Jobs vs. Gates it has more to do with a pissing contest than any benefit to humanity.

Personally I don't think it's a good thing for that megalomaniac to have interest in it.

I kinda agree with you, i just hope he actually does something good for the community and not dismiss it.

Facebook Coins in 3, 2...

Zuckerburg is a idea thief and a technology pirate so he should fit right in here.

a reader said to a news site that zuckerberg asked him about bitcoins...

ok.

and here is in hungarian  :)
http://index.hu/tech/2013/05/28/bitcoinrol_beszelt_zuckerberg_olvasonknak/

Yeah that's what I thought.

I'm sure the only interest Zuckerberg has in BTC is to try to fuck with the Winklevoss. No way he's supporting BTC knowing that the twins own 1% of it.

Let's do not forget that these guys sued him for hundreds of millions $. At best he's thinking how to sink BTC to laugh out loud at the twin's faces, or maybe looking into it to get inspiration for his "Facebook coins".

Maybe he just wants more BTC then they do..?

That would be too good to be true :D

..to crash the market ;)

Keep it coming ;)

Just imagine:
Zuckerberg buidling a Facebook-based Ripple-network, using Bitcoin (no, not FB-coin, definitely not Facebook-coin...)

That will happen
Don't forget to bump this thread when it happens

That would be epic

Can you imagine, the system suggesting you "friends" to extend trust lines to? Everybody creating debt-money from thin air, like's there is no tomorrow... More trust lines = more successful!!

:D

Just imagine if Zuckerberg would be BTC with 1 billion $.

Calm down, you're gonna get that sticky stuff all over your shoes. Chances are he's only interested at all because he wants to crap on the Winklevoss twins somehow. I'm sure he understands if he did invest he would make his arch rivals even richer by increasing the value of their holdings. I'm pretty sure that's not in his long term plan. He's already worth billions.

It's great news but it could be just talk.  I didn't read the article, all I know is it's free advertising for Bitcoin which is always nice!  ;)

What you don't understand about word IMAGINE? I didn't say he will, I say IMAGINE.

BTC as the currency of choice on FB? That would be sweet.

imagine...



(imagine if you became rich by playing on the internet, that would be sweet)

In other news.

Mark Zuckerburg dumps $1 billion into LiteCoin.

LOL

+1

I'm sorry, but I kinda doubt that anyone who opens their network to the CIA regularly and attends Bilderberg meetings is going to be good for Bitcoin.

Just sayin'.

if we focused on getting all nascar and NFL NBA fans to each buy 1 bitcoin...... The price of bitcoin wil do amazing thing, on top of add to its decentralized nature, as there will also be much more widespread circulation and adoption.

WOW bitcoins really starting to takeoff

The real problem is: if he is really gonna do something, why Hungary?

And no, it's naive to think that Zuck is stupid enough to spend millions just to screw the Winkleviis, or that he doesn't know that anything he can do will only have temporary effect on Bitcoin and if it backfires it will benefit the Winkleviis hugely.

Bits of Proof is based in Hungary. If one were to implement Bitcoin on a Facebook scale, they would want an enterprise level solution. Just a thought.

Mark Zuckerberg is a smart man.

+1

Actually this is closer to the truth than you might imagine ... however he still has to demonstrate that he can handle his coins ;) ....

... how good would that look ... "all Zuck's coins belongs to us" being posted up on pastebin?

Emmm... Are you speaking about Gavin?

:D

I'd love to use my mined coins to directly fund my Farmville 2 account. The amount I can mine isn't significant enough to bother exchanging to fiat or spending on anything else, and Farmville 2 isn't significant enough to spend my fiat money on. Win-win.

He almost certainly wants to get an impression of the popularity of Bitcoin when he's asking random people about it.

Maybe he's been asked by the establishment what he can do against Bitcoin, that's why there is this meeting, so he will probably come up with something built into Facebook (much better than those Facebook Credits of course). That way he can also hurt his Winklevii arch rivals and kill two birds with one stone.

I can't wait until he completes the ultimate troll on the Winklevii by revealing that he is in fact Satoshi and he has a hidden backdoor that resets their wallets to 0 :D

He didn't steal anything, you can't steal the idea of a 'social network'. In fact myspace was already out, so if you really think Mark stole the idea of a social network, then them two guys stole it from myspace.

You can't steal something if it isn't already made, Facebook wasn't made. The whole concept of having the social network for the university wasn't made. Mark literally made it himself. Them guys wouldn't of been able to program the site, that's the reason they spoke to Mark in the first place.
Them guys had a IDEA, that's all.

I can't say I invented flying cars if I draw a picture and show you the proof. There have been many people who have thought of a idea, but couldn't make it. So someone else did. But they didn't steal it, because it didn't existence in the first place.

Not exactly true... he was supposed to be making it with/for them..... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBLd_wFmbjg

That's true, he did say we was going to create it for them, but he didn't copy their exact plans. The two men only had ideas, no designs etc. He couldn't of stole anything because them men actually didn't create anything except for a idea, which social networks already existed at that point. They said ONLY for their university. BUt, that's just limiting the social network.

Yet, Mark did take some of their ideas, but he turned them into so much more. The film "social network" actually explains this and Mark points out some very good points. One of them was that them two guys wouldn't even know how to do it, he's the one who created it.
In fact, them two guys did provide him with some code, yet Mark didn't even use ANY of their code. He used their general idea, but turned it into 'his' version.

Zuckerberg will support Ripple. 

Ripple is gonna be hailed as a great revolutionary leap in the world of finance. 

Watch out for more corporate backing on ripple.

Source?
Why should he support Ripple, when he can make his own "Fripple"?

Alternative title...

A Fool and his Money soon parted.

This worries me, someone who has built the worlds largest repository of more than a billion people's thoughts, photos, address, phone numbers, friends, etc and actually could give two f**cks about user privacy, and was a part of the NSA PRIZM program (naturally) getting into btc will completely throw out what bitcoin is about.

No thanks Mark.

I remember someone mentioning that back in Facebook's early days Zuck was speaking to his cronies, and mentioned that "people who use Facebook are stupid" this was before the platform was opened to devs. Once the open graph and other FB APIs became available and I took a look at the massive amount of data you could use in your app I was a believer in the fact that he probably did make that comment.

Many of the people using Facebook have no idea the things us developers can access on them. Remember Mark is a nerd.

I don't follow your objection. Why don't you start the world's largest social network and base it on anonymity? Here's a freebie. Call it PoserBook.

Nowhere did I say I wanted to start a social network. What Mark has done is an achievement in of itself. But I think your missing the point of what I'm saying the mission statement of Facebook and what bitcoin stand for are not in alignment what so ever.

Since when is the mission of FB not about making billions (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/quotes?item=qt1320496)? What better way to monetize everything than with Bitcoin?

So, any follow-up on Mark Z. and Bitcoins?
Haven't heard any further news...

There was no news. The whole thing was bullshit to begin with.

also see (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218426.msg2297377#msg2297377)

lets see what zuck finally does, all the big guys seem to talk about but aren't doing anything

That's true. A lot of owners of BIG companies have been 'interested' in Bitcoin, but they usually don't opt in for it.