Billionaire at just 34, and an experienced businessman, Mark Zuckerberg is still thirsty for new projects. The proof, the CEO of Facebook wants to study cryptocurrency during the coming months.
Zuckerberg tackles cryptocurrencies
After the crazy success, and fortune, he has achieved through Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg wants to continue on his road to success. So why not embark on the trend of the moment: cryptocurrency? It is in any case the project of the founder of Facebook this year.
Zuckerberg has just announced that he is preparing to study cryptocurrency during this new year, in order to improve its social network. Wishing to learn more about everything that is about decentralization technologies, the crack of the computer has chosen as theme "the resolution of important problems in the fields of technology, the media and the government". He also said that he intends to bring together experts and discuss with them on these topics.
This information will surely not please the twins "billionaire bitcoin" Winklevoss who, it is recalled, sued Mr. Zuckerberg, for stealing their project "Facebook". Yet it is real and their former Harvard colleague has even confirmed all of this himself through a long publication on ... Facebook.
Zuckerberg's research projects on cryptocurrency
As he himself explained, the tycoon of Silicon Valley has chosen a new subject, a new field, every year since 2009, with the goal of studying it as deeply as possible. For 2018, Zuckerberg has cracked for the very attractive universe of cryptocurrency, and it seems to have already begun its study, if we look at his post on Facebook.
"... For example, one of the most technologically interesting issues at the moment is centralization versus decentralization. Many of us have embraced technology because we believe it can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in the hands of people. The first four words of Facebook's mission have always been "empowering people". In the 1990s and 2000s, most people believed that technology would be a decentralizing force.
But today, many people have lost confidence in this promise. With the rise of a small number of large technology companies - and governments using technology to monitor their citizens - many now believe that technology only centralizes power instead of decentralizing it.
There are important counter-trends to this - such as encryption and cryptocurrency - that take the power of centralized systems and put it back into the hands of people. But they bring the risk of being more difficult to control. I am interested in deepening and studying the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services.
It will be a year of personal improvement and I look forward to learning by working together to solve our problems. "
To believe his philosophical vision of cryptocurrency, Mark Zuckerberg is indeed interested in technology around Bitcoin et al. In any case we can not wait to see what he will propose soon, who knows, he may be able to follow in the footsteps of his former collaborator David Marcus who has recently entered the crypto universe?
Sounds that he's not going to be the only one.