Re:Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Tran...
by solarkraft on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:43AM
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Why would Facebook have any interest in this? Public trust? Is the public that smart?
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Re:Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Tran...
by bsaul on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:52PM
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my guess is if facebook is working on its own blockchain currency, the algorithm describing the currency would be a bit different from bitcoin or ethereum. Contrary to what you read sometimes, those cryptocurrencies have properties that are not desirable for a real world currency ( aka inflationary and very poor number of transaction per seconds capacity).