Mark Zuckerberg talking about blockchain

[Samyalson]

It seems like the FB founder has nothing but positive things to say about blockchain technology.

There are rumours going around that he will release a cryptocurrency for use on WhatsApp, but given the privacy and censorship concerns over FB, I can't see many people going for it.

https://cryptomenow.com/mark-zuckerberg-believes-strongly-in-the-power-of-decentralization-and-blockchain/

[jossiel]

IIRC he announced this late 2017 during the bull run and was stated that he's still studying crypto and blockchain. And on latter of 2018, it's on the news that they have been hiring blockchain professionals which is an obvious act to understand that they will join and adopt the tech soon.

Creating a 'facebook coin' is likely but it's still a rumor, they have a large number of users so it will applicable to them. AFAIK, they have created sort of coins before during those restaurant city and farmville days.

[minersday]

It is very good that people like Mark Zuckerberg thinks blockchain technology is relevant in terms of decentralizing the way people provide and give services online. It is time people in the tech world educate the general public on how blockchain is going to transform the world we find ourselves in it. A lot of people are naive about the purpose and the benefits blockchain technology presents to the world. As a result of their naive nature, they don't really understand blockchain and cryptocurrency..

[denzkilim]

IIRC he announced this late 2017 during the bull run and was stated that he's still studying crypto and blockchain. And on latter of 2018, it's on the news that they have been hiring blockchain professionals which is an obvious act to understand that they will join and adopt the tech soon.

Creating a 'facebook coin' is likely but it's still a rumor, they have a large number of users so it will applicable to them. AFAIK, they have created sort of coins before during those restaurant city and farmville days.

I also heard and read about those rumors that Facebook will create its own Crypto Currency, I think it is way back in late 2017's when I heard about it. This may be still a rumor but if the CEO of Facebook itself is studying about crypto and blockchain there might be a higher chance that they will create their own Crypto Currency or their own blockchain or they will use the blockchain technology to improve their platform.

[Baofeng]

This is an old news, there's also a report that Mark recently hire a group or build a new team to focus more on this technology and how it can help in their business model.

On Tuesday Facebook reorganized the duties of its product executives, in the process creating an unusual new division: David Marcus, formerly head of Facebook’s Messenger app, will now lead a team of fewer than a dozen people dedicated to blockchain technology, according to Recode. He’ll be joined by notable executives including Kevin Weil, former VP of product at Instagram, and James Everingham, VP of engineering at Instagram.

https://www.wired.com/story/whats-the-deal-with-facebook-and-the-blockchain/

So I'm not surprised and I guess Blockchain technology has set the bar so high that everyone which is involves in the IT sector wanted to explore it. Maybe we can see big companies acquiring Blockchain related competitors in the future.

[Pumared]

It seems like the FB founder has nothing but positive things to say about blockchain technology.

There are rumours going around that he will release a cryptocurrency for use on WhatsApp, but given the privacy and censorship concerns over FB, I can't see many people going for it.

https://cryptomenow.com/mark-zuckerberg-believes-strongly-in-the-power-of-decentralization-and-blockchain/

I see no point in creating a Crypt for WhatsApp. About Blockchain, the trend is a wider use than just Cryptos so many people will still come to speak well of technology.

[singlecrytpo]

I don't think I can trust anything that guy has to say, he has zero good intentions besides making more money. centralized king

[perla]

I don't think I can trust anything that guy has to say, he has zero good intentions besides making more money. centralized king

As long that is influencer who said about crypto, even only blockchain technology. It can really affect for market. If we traders, i think we must take advantage from this. But it will be different response from crypto enthusiast.

[pooya87]

are you so desperate for posting anything that you are now digging the news from over a year ago and posting them on your website?
i am just wondering why your account has not been banned yet for spamming the forum with your one liner posts continued by the link to your own website as an advertisement to generate traffic!

[smartbitcoininvestor]

It only seems obvious that Facebook will develop its own blockchain based digital currency/ies to complement their Whatsapp and Facebook apps. I think Mark Zuckerberg and co will make this update simply to make it easier to secure data.

[Hiru941126]

IIRC he announced this late 2017 during the bull run and was stated that he's still studying crypto and blockchain. And on latter of 2018, it's on the news that they have been hiring blockchain professionals which is an obvious act to understand that they will join and adopt the tech soon.

Creating a 'facebook coin' is likely but it's still a rumor, they have a large number of users so it will applicable to them. AFAIK, they have created sort of coins before during those restaurant city and farmville days.

It is so happy to heard this kind of a news.sure he will study those things and do something for the cryptocurrency.If that so cryptocrrencies will market as never before it will be popular in a minute

[mk4]

Quite old news, but yea. Not because somebody is sort of positive on blockchain technology, it doesn't automatically mean they're positive on bitcoin. Knowing Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, chances are, they'd want total control over everything; so basically chances are that they're going to create their own coin/token instead. I think they have pretty much zero incentive to actually use bitcoin on their platform as it wouldn't garner them any profit as far as I know.

[Wind_FURY]

It is very good that people like Mark Zuckerberg thinks blockchain technology is relevant in terms of decentralizing the way people provide and give services online. It is time people in the tech world educate the general public on how blockchain is going to transform the world we find ourselves in it. A lot of people are naive about the purpose and the benefits blockchain technology presents to the world. As a result of their naive nature, they don't really understand blockchain and cryptocurrency..

Welcome to the journey.

I'm confident that you will learn the "truth about blockchains", the further you go on your journey. It might take you longer than others, but you will learn for yourself that the term "blockchain technology" is merely a buzzword used for marketing shitcoins.

[Elqui]

If Mark Zuckerberg make a blockchain, I’m very sure that it would be a massive hit and it will be the gateway of cryptocurrency to MORE people all over the world, specially those who don’t really know what cryptocurrency is and those possible investors who don’t really know it. If that happen I’ll make sure I’ll join their ICO because for sure their token price will go really high. Im sure so many investors will invest on this too.

[Kakmakr]

Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on an empire that was built on invasion of privacy. It is a fact that Facebook are one of the largest resources of information to the US Government.  Mark Zuckerberg will definitely not use a technology like Bitcoin that gives people pseudo-anonymity.

You can expect a centralized controlled Crypto currency based on the Blockchain technology to be released soon and this technology will be controlled by Facebook. <They will control the mining and the nodes, but the nodes will still be decentralized for security purposes and also redundancy.>   

This is bad news for Bitcoin when giants like this invest in their own private Blockchain technologies. 

[septi.JR]

I am sure, great people will support new discoveries, like Mark Zuckerberg who supports the blockchain, I myself have heard this good news, but until now Mark Zuckerberg has not started with a project that will be built with blockchain

[arkawa040]

It seems like the FB founder has nothing but positive things to say about blockchain technology.

There are rumours going around that he will release a cryptocurrency for use on WhatsApp, but given the privacy and censorship concerns over FB, I can't see many people going for it.

https://cryptomenow.com/mark-zuckerberg-believes-strongly-in-the-power-of-decentralization-and-blockchain/

When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, Pavel Durov copied it technologies and created a social network, Vkontakte. Now, many years later, Pavel Durov spent his ICO created the coin TON, the idea of the telegram project with the ability to transfer cryptocurrencies to each other in the simplest way, now I see that Mark Zuckerberg creates the same). One question, are these two guys copying each other's work???)))

[prasad87]

It seems like the FB founder has nothing but positive things to say about blockchain technology.

There are rumours going around that he will release a cryptocurrency for use on WhatsApp, but given the privacy and censorship concerns over FB, I can't see many people going for it.

https://cryptomenow.com/mark-zuckerberg-believes-strongly-in-the-power-of-decentralization-and-blockchain/

Dude, the average person is not your average crypto enthusiast. If that were the case Steemit would be more popular than Facebook. If FB push a coin to the masses it could easily overtake the entire crypto market combined.

[Ycekezuv]

So far there is no news about this, but still it can be assumed that they will still bring their plans to the end!

[cryptogeek101]

It seems like the FB founder has nothing but positive things to say about blockchain technology.

There are rumours going around that he will release a cryptocurrency for use on WhatsApp, but given the privacy and censorship concerns over FB, I can't see many people going for it.

https://cryptomenow.com/mark-zuckerberg-believes-strongly-in-the-power-of-decentralization-and-blockchain/

I think the blockchain technology is a better option for a social network as large as Facebook,if Mark Zuckerberg could eventually accepts to be part of this innovative technology it will be a welcome development for the cryptocurrency community at large and the Facebook community in particular,there is no smoke without fire.