On Facebook, a post published on Thursday, the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg explained that digital currencies have the ability to take power from centralized systems and give it to people.
Mark Zuckerberg is interested in cryptocurrencies and may think of implementing them on his website Facebook.
Facebook's top executive, Mark Zuckerberg, gave crypto enthusiasts a little optimism for the new year.
Zuckerberg made reference to digital currencies in a publication on Thursday in which he described how 2018 will be spent trying to correct lingering problems, including the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation, which have affected his tremendously popular social network for the past two years.
"There are important counter-trends to this --like encryption and cryptocurrency -- that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands" - wrote Zuckerberg
"But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services."
The message from Zuckerberg may mean for the world of cryptocurrency is still to be seen.
Below is the link to the complete Facebook post done by Mark Zuckerberg:
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104380170714571?pnref=story