According to five anonymous sources of the American edition of The New York Times, representatives of the social network Facebook conducted with a number of cripture talks about a possible listing of its own stablon. It is assumed that it can be launched in the first half of this year to integrate payment solutions to WhatsApp messenger and it is linked to a portfolio of multiple cryptocurrencies.
Recall that the first suspect Facebook plans to release its own crypto currency for use within the social network last spring. At the same time Vice-President of Facebook who is responsible for the operation of messaging, David Marcus (David Marcus) decided to “take new challenge” and lead a “small group” to study the possibilities of applying blockchain technology in the structure of Facebook. And then the position of Director of blockchain engineering moved one of the technical leaders of the social network of Evan Cheng (Evan Cheng). At the end of the year cryptosuite again began discussion of the creation of Facebook own cryptocurrency, and recently, the company acquired the first blockchain startup.
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