What we know about Facebook’s secretive cryptocurrency – and what we don’t

2019-3-1 12:07

Rumours about Facebook‘s potential entry into the world of cryptocurrency have been swirling around for months, but it now seems the technology giant is getting closer to launching its own coin.

According to a New York Times report, published yesterday, Facebook, Telegram, and Signal are all reportedly working to get their cryptocurrencies to market. In true technology giant fashion, Facebook has failed to divulge specifics, but the New York Times cites five anonymous sources briefed on the matter, all of whom say Mark Zuckerberg‘s company is working on a coin to be used on its WhatsApp service (which it acquired…

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Shocking New York Times Report: Facebook is Proposing Its “Facebook Coin” to Bitcoin Exchanges

Reports from NYT Suggest that Facebook in Talks with Multiple Exchanges for “Facebook Coin” Facebook has been somehow both largely public and intensely private about their journey into blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

2019-2-28 21:27	News
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Mark Zuckerberg Considering Blockchain for Data Authorization

Mark Zuckerberg hinted in a February 20, 2019 interview that he is considering making use of blockchain technology for data authorization purposes. Data Authorization Facebook has taken its time when it comes to entering the blockchain market.

2019-2-25 13:11	Facebook
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Facebook’s Crypto Division Might Build a Blockchain Identity System: Mark Zuckerberg

Weighed down by countless accusations of user-data violations, crypto-curious Facebook has signaled that it could turn to blockchain technology for some tasks. In a video discussion, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain, that the social media giant could integrate blockchain technology into the platform’s login and data sharing systems.

2019-2-22 20:38	Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg Considers Blockchain for Data Authorization and Logins

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, expressed interest in utilizing blockchain technology for the authorization of data, such as logins and account validation, in an interview with Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain on Feb.

2019-2-21 16:09	Technology
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Zuckerberg’s ‘blockchain login’ plan makes absolutely no sense

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is exploring the possibility of leveraging blockchain technology for the company’s third-party login services. In an interview with Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said a move from the existing centralized Facebook Connect to a distributed system could empower users and app developers alike.

2019-2-21 16:02	hard fork
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Mark Zuckerberg Hints at Integrating Blockchain into Facebook Login

CoinSpeaker Mark Zuckerberg Hints at Integrating Blockchain into Facebook Login Mark Zuckerberg is interested in putting the Facebook login on the blockchain technology which can be used to enable users to control their data and attract software developers who don’t want to rely on corporations that can cut off users’ access.

2019-2-21 11:50	Mark Zuckerberg
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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder

The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments to steal our privacy and restrict our speech and autonomy. What should exist are neutral, technical standards and protocols, like the standards and protocols for blogs, email, and the Web.

2019-2-20 12:41	Contributors
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Facebook Blockchain Effort Grows, Looks to Hire 14 New Team Members

The social media giant is currently looking to hire 14 specialists in the field of blockchain-based technology, according to its official careers page. This signals that the company’s interest in the space is only growing stronger.

2019-2-21 12:30
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The world’s first smart oral sex toy aims to close the orgasm gender gap

This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between sex and technology in a non-explicit, as close to a ‘safe for work’ way as possible – including app reviews, adult VR info, sextech devices, privacy, security issues, and much more.

2019-2-16 13:00	Tech
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Will Blockchain Protocols Create More Value Than HTTP Protocols?

The HTTP boom only benefitted the projects that developers built on top of the application layer of the network (sites like Amazon and Facebook), but blockchain technology may offer a more balanced growth for other layers.

2019-2-14 00:00	Lightning Network
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Can I Trust BitFury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe

Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.

2019-2-9 23:59	Payments
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Can I Trust Bitfury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe

2019-2-12 23:59	Payments
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Facebook is doing something with blockchain, but nobody knows what

It’s been a busy week for Facebook. The tech giant celebrated its 15th anniversary amid calls for improvements in its data handling and privacy policies. One day later, Cheddar reported the company had quietly snapped up the team behind Chainspace, a London-based blockchain startup.

2019-2-5 18:22	hard fork
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Facebook Expands Its Secretive Crypto Division Onboarding Smart Contract Pros from Chainspace

CoinSpeaker Facebook Expands Its Secretive Crypto Division Onboarding Smart Contract Pros from Chainspace The social media giant hired employees from Chainspace but declined to comment on specific hires, stating that the company isn’t acquiring any of Chainspace’s technology though.

2019-2-5 11:53	WhatsApp
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Amazon, Facebook, and Google don’t need to spy on your conversations to know what you’re talking about

If you’ve ever wondered if your phone is spying on you, you’re not alone. One of the most hotly debated topics in technology today is the amount of data that firms surreptitiously gather about us online.

2019-1-30 14:53	Tech
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India’s porn crackdown isn’t working — but China’s is

2019-1-26 12:00	Tech
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Top VC’s: Facebook Is Vulnerable, Blockchain Could Take Power Away From Big Tech

Speaking to CNBC during a panel discussion in Davos, Phil Chen, decentralized chief officer at HTC suggested that blockchain technology could potentially take some power away from large tech firms.

2019-1-25 15:59	blockchain
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Mark Zuckerberg resolves to hold public talks on the future of tech this year

Every year since 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly announced his New Year resolutions; for 2019, he intends to “host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.

2019-1-9 11:59	Facebook
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Why Ohio’s State Treasurer Backs Decision to Accept BTC For Tax Payments

As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U.

2019-1-3 20:53	Adoption & community
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The Daily: Wallet Brings Bitcoin to Facebook, Fortnite Store Accepts Crypto

In this edition of The Daily, crypto wallet Lite. im, which is integrated with popular messengers, has added support for BTC. Also, the online store selling Fortnite merchandise now accepts monero and esports company Unikrn has launched a crypto betting platform using technology from Bittrex.

2019-1-2 17:12	Wallet
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Tech stocks are overvalued and it’s killing innovation

We’re entering an unprecedented era of advanced technology and behemoth tech companies driving its development. Earlier this year, Apple became the first company to reach a one-trillion-dollar valuation, and Amazon followed suit, reaching a one-trillion-dollar market cap in September.

2018-12-30 02:00	Contributors
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Facebook’s Blockchain and Crypto Year: How the Social Network Changed Opinions During 2018

Facebook has been changing opinion about the virtual currency market and blockchain technology over 2018. A few days ago, Bloomberg informed that the company is going to be creating a stablecoin and target the Indian market for transactions between individuals.

2018-12-29 22:04	News
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Binance CEO: About Time Facebook Launches Its Own Crypto, Bolsters Adoption

Even amid 2018’s crypto market downturn, reports have recently begun to sprout up that Facebook, one of the largest technology giant on Planet Earth, has started to earnestly dive into blockchain development.

2018-12-21 14:00	StableCoin
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Facebook Levies an Army of Blockchain Devs: New Crypto Economy on the Way?

CoinSpeaker Facebook Levies an Army of Blockchain Devs: New Crypto Economy on the Way? Facebook has formed a blockchain technology research group which considers the idea of developing a decentralized cryptocurrency for the social media platform.

2018-12-17 13:23	paypal
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[New Facebook Rumor] Social Media Giant Eyes Blockchain Payment Product in a Hiring Spree of Developers

Back in May 2018, Facebook formed a cryptocurrency team to explore the possibilities, and today it removed a roadblock to revealing its secret plans. Blockchain could help tackle some of Facebook’s most bothersome problems, like identity verification or advertising sales.

2018-12-17 23:30	News
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Facebook’s Bet on Blockchain—Four More Job Postings

Facebook is filling positions for four different blockchain engineering roles. The announcement comes after David Marcus—former head of Messenger, and the previous president of PayPal—was selected to become ‘Director of Engineering, Blockchain.

2018-12-12 10:55	Mark Zuckerberg
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Australian Anti-Encryption Bill Reminds the Globe “Why Crypto?”

The Australian government has passed a controversial anti-encryption bill that allows law authorities to forcefully access sensitive consumer data encrypted by popularly-used technology companies and social applications, reported The Hacker News on December 10, 2018.

2018-12-11 20:00	Regulations
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Facebook’s Blockchain Project And The Social Network’s Adoption Of New Technologies

What blockchain technology might look like on the world’s most popular social network, and who might want it.

2018-12-11 21:53	Technology
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Facebook is hiring engineers and researchers for its blockchain team

It seems Facebook is looking to step up its “decentralization” efforts. The social media giant is currently recruiting blockchain engineers and researchers. Facebook wants to add a data scientist, a data engineer, and a couple of software engineers to its growing blockchain team, according to its careers page (via SludgeFeed).

2018-12-10 14:01	hard fork
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Exploring the Chances of a facebook Cryptocurrency

The past few days has seen several publications and crypto enthusiasts notice that the popular social media giant of facebook has advertised 5 job vacancies related to blockchain technology. The open positions are all based in the company’s headquarters of Menlo Park, California, and are as follows: Data Scientist, Blockchain Data Engineer, Blockchain Software Engineer, […] The post Exploring the Chances of a facebook Cryptocurrency appeared first on Ethereum World News.

2018-12-10 13:56	Facebook
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Justin Sun Announces Tron (TRX)’s Listing on Coinsuper, a Hong-Kong Based Fiat-to-Crypto Exchange

Tron has a focus, projected towards building an infrastructure that would decentralize the internet, using the blockchain technology. It aims at enhancing the entertainment industry, other blockchain networks, and smart contracts.

2018-10-31 17:27	trx
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Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! A Letter From Ross Ulbricht

Happy Birthday, Bitcoin!Bitcoin is turning ten, and like many of us, I feel like a proud parent, having watched it grow into its potential over the years. I guess I’m the estranged father in prison though, who can’t be there to help raise his kid.

2018-10-31 23:57	Op-ed
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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.

2018-11-1 23:35	Op-ed
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David Chaum on Digital Privacy: “The Cat Is Out of the Bag”

David Chaum, the cryptographer credited with starting the cypherpunk movement in the 1980s and launching eCash, an early form of virtual money in the 1990s, thinks people are taking financial privacy a lot more seriously these days.

2018-10-24 18:02	Events
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Warren Buffet and Nouriel Roubini ; Two Economists who Firmly Oppose Cryptocurrency As a Result Of Ignorance

From as far back as 2010 when Bitcoin, fondly termed “father of all cryptocurrency” was launched, the technology has been greeted with massive criticism from the general public. The transparency of Bitcoin has consistently been questioned by several top digital technology firms.

2018-10-24 15:00	Warren Buffet
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Facebook is reportedly shopping around for a cybersecurity firm

Facebook’s had a bad year handling user data and securing its systems. Now, according to The Information, the company is looking to acquire a major cybersecurity firm to help repair its reputation.

2018-10-22 13:30	Insider
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Bitcoin Magazine Week in Review: Stablecoins Take the Spotlight

With the exception of the SEC’s FinHub announcement, it has been a quiet week for regulatory news — something we’ve been getting a lot of recently as U. S. officials clamp down on unscrupulous coin offerings and crypto companies.

2018-10-20 17:49
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CryptoMinerals (CMR) - Airdrop CryptoMinerals is a crypto collectible game based on blockchain technology.

CryptoMinerals are digital assets, even more your digital property which you are able to buy, sell, or trade similarly to traditional collectibles while securing transactions on the blockchain.

2018-10-19 10:00
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Brave CEO Pens Letter to Senate Committee Asking for GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation

Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.

2018-10-4 20:51	Regulation
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Facebook Latest Hack Confirms An International Need For Blockchain Technology

The latest news out of Facebook this week is that the social network has been subject to yet another mass data hack, one that calls into question once again the integrity of users data on Facebook.

2018-10-3 12:30	hack
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3 obvious ways your life will be improved by using social media less

Many of us spend hours every day tethered to our devices, pawing at the screen to see if it will deliver a few more likes or emails, monitoring the world and honing our online presence. Social networking platforms such as Whatsapp, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are supposed to make us feel more connected.

2018-9-30 15:30	Syndication
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It’s Time Facebook Protected User Security with Blockchain Tech

On September 25th, Facebook reported a security issue that affected almost 50 million users. Hopefully, this security breach will drive Facebook management to accelerate its efforts to improve data privacy by incorporating blockchain technology.

2018-9-30 07:00
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Google Shifts Gear, Puts an End to Ban on Cryptocurrency Ads

One of the largest internet technology firms on the planet, Mountain View, California-based Google is reversing its stance on cryptocurrencies, removing a ban on crypto-related advertising that went into effect in early 2018.

2018-9-26 19:16
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Cutting through the Hype: Is Facebook really at Risk of Being Toppled by Blockchain Technology?

In the past ten years, Facebook has grown from a mere social media platform to one of the biggest internet companies the world has ever seen. With its recent acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, it has comfortably positioned itself in the minds of over two billion people.

2018-9-25 07:00	social media
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Crypto Startup Reels in Twitch Executive to Spearhead Adoption Strategies

Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.

2018-9-18 19:38	Startups
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Esprezzo ICO

Esprezzo provides a platform and tooling which doesn’t require knowledge of, but can be integrated with common enterprise and popular frameworks such as Node. js, . NET, Ruby on Rails, Python and more.

2018-9-4 12:03
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Op Ed: DApps Can Increase Audience Engagement for Creators and Influencers

Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.

2018-9-4 21:43	Op-ed
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Сестра Марка Цукерберга вступила в экспертный комитет Huobi Chain

Старшая сестра основателя Facebook Марка Цукерберга вошла в состав экспертно-консультативного комитета Huobi Chain. Рэнди Цукерберг на данный момент также занимает пост главы контентной компании Zuckerberg Media, основанной ею пять лет назад.

2018-8-27 15:33	Huobi
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SoftBank Denies Reports of Bitmain Deal; Bitmain Still Silent

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has denied media reports of its involvement in a pre-IPO funding round of bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Bitmain. Last week, several media outlets had reported that SoftBank and Chinese internet giant Tencent were leading a pre-IPO funding round for Bitmain.

2018-8-21 18:03	Mining
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