David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain Within Facebook

Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by hk__2 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:22PM (#17025823)

    > 4. Use BC to combat fake news
    > 5. AI platforms
    > 6. Streaming services

I fail to see how any of those has anything to do with the blockchain.

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Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by Mithorium on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:26PM (#17025870)

This reminds me of "lets do x, except in THE CLOUD" all over again. fight censorship by putting things in THE CLOUD where it can't easily be blocked, stream video from THE CLOUD

wasn't "the cloud" supposed to do decentralization too? hmm

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Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by bduerst on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @07:59PM (#17026409)

The "Cloud" was at least about economies of scale (switching on-prem -> cloud has some potential cost savings).

I'm not sure re-implementing on a blockchain has the same effect, unless they're farming processing out to third-party actors at no cost somehow.

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Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by exit on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @12:23AM (#17027396)

> 4. Use BC to combat fake news

perhaps blockchains can be used to immutably timestamp events like political speeches, to create an authoritative historical record?

> 5. AI platforms

consider the following efforts:

https://pandoraboxchain.ai/

https://oceanprotocol.com/

> 6. Streaming services

perhaps content rights could be managed on a blockchain?

also consider this lightning network related effort: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-meets-netflix-laolu-buildin...

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Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by hk__2 on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:17AM (#17028707)

> perhaps blockchains can be used to immutably timestamp events like political speeches, to create an authoritative historical record?

So it’s not "combat fake news" but rather "create an authoritative historical record of events’ timestamps". I’m not sure how the blockchain is in any way useful for the latter. I feel like we’re trying to force blockchain into every imaginable field without even thinking about it.

> consider the following efforts

Landings full of buzzwords are not "efforts". Like another commenter pointed out, it’s the whole "let’s do X, except in the cloud" thing all over again.

> perhaps content rights could be managed on a blockchain?

Ditto. "let's do content rights, except in the blockchain".

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Re:David Marcus Leaves Messenger to Focus on Blockchain With... by asdsa5325 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @08:52PM (#17026652)

They don't have anything to do with it. He's just throwing out buzzwords, no clue what he's saying.

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