teens/young adults are dropping facebook faster than ever because their entire family is now on FB and the last thing you want is your parents and extended family watching everything you do online.
i see facebook dying a horrible death in a few years
Topic: OMG! Is Facebook introducing Bitcoins! (Read 3682 times)
What a misleading title. 
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Not exactly, but that's the literal translation of the article's title, and I couldn't make a better one.
http://index.hu/tech/2013/05/28/bitcoinrol_beszelt_zuckerberg_olvasonknak/
Alright. Translated the entire first part of the article:
It is already confirmed that Facebook founder, Marck Zuckerberg is in Hungary. He's been staying in Europe for a while, in Coppenhagen he had a discussion with the prime minister, in Germany he talked with representatives, and he spent the Sunday in Vienna. By Monday evening he was in Hungary, eating in the restaurant called Spíler.
Our readers caught him last night at 1:30 AM around the Király street. They could not talk with him much, but based on what he said even Bitcoin, the digital currency, could be the reason behind his visit to Hungary. Here's Gábor's report:
We wanted to take a photo with him, but he didn't let us. We asked him why he came to Budapest, he asked back whether we know about Bitcoin. I had no idea what it is, didn't even understand what he's saying, but a buddy of mine knew about it, but by the time he'd have told it to him he already walked away from us, in a polite but assertive way.
We have got no idea what Bitcoin has to do with Budapest, maybe the famously strange CEO was just kidding.
index.hu is one of the biggest Hungarian news sites, they're very reliable, but the part about Bitcoin is entirely based on a reader's letter.
http://index.hu/tech/2013/05/28/bitcoinrol_beszelt_zuckerberg_olvasonknak/
Alright. Translated the entire first part of the article:
It is already confirmed that Facebook founder, Marck Zuckerberg is in Hungary. He's been staying in Europe for a while, in Coppenhagen he had a discussion with the prime minister, in Germany he talked with representatives, and he spent the Sunday in Vienna. By Monday evening he was in Hungary, eating in the restaurant called Spíler.
Our readers caught him last night at 1:30 AM around the Király street. They could not talk with him much, but based on what he said even Bitcoin, the digital currency, could be the reason behind his visit to Hungary. Here's Gábor's report:
We wanted to take a photo with him, but he didn't let us. We asked him why he came to Budapest, he asked back whether we know about Bitcoin. I had no idea what it is, didn't even understand what he's saying, but a buddy of mine knew about it, but by the time he'd have told it to him he already walked away from us, in a polite but assertive way.
We have got no idea what Bitcoin has to do with Budapest, maybe the famously strange CEO was just kidding.
index.hu is one of the biggest Hungarian news sites, they're very reliable, but the part about Bitcoin is entirely based on a reader's letter.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1f77qd/mark_zuckerberg_talks_about_bitcoin_in_hungary/
At the same time, they say, was a Bitcoin meetup nearby in Budapest.
facebook is fast becoming totally irrelevant to anyone under 20...I've seen my teenage son and daughter and all their friends completely dropping off facebook in the past year...I know this is the end for them. They have a few short years left but will eventually be another myspace trying too hard for an audience that is no longer interested.
I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control.
I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control.
seems pretty stable to me.
facebook is fast becoming totally irrelevant to anyone under 20...I've seen my teenage son and daughter and all their friends completely dropping off facebook in the past year...I know this is the end for them. They have a few short years left but will eventually be another myspace trying too hard for an audience that is no longer interested.
I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control.
I also can't see them ever making a move to something like this that they cannot completely control.
Yeah, I hear Zuck is really good mates with the twins after the law suit - wants to make them rich
Let's say you could become trillionaire by making your old enemies billionaires. What would you do?
If its riskless, i would do it. Enemies one day, friends the next
I could totally see Facebook creating FaceBookCoin in the same streak as other "coins" like Apple iMoney and AmazonCoin, neither of which are cryptocurrencies but centralized web-coupon garbage not unlike web currencies of the 2000s .com implosion.
But, I would still hold hope Zuckerberg sees the light and actually pushes to accept the real deal as payment for ad services and such.
But, I would still hold hope Zuckerberg sees the light and actually pushes to accept the real deal as payment for ad services and such.
Goodness, the sentence is so vague, it can mean anything in the world!!!! How do you associate it with Bitcoin in the first place?
I think he mistook the coffee stain mark from the bitcoin logo
What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us!
Guess he's talking about this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits
I'm talking about Amazon Coins instead, which are marketed as a currency when they clearly aren't (i.e. they are just "credits").
The difference between a currency and credits is that a currency may be exchanged between different users, while credits always go through the issuer.
Goodness, the sentence is so vague, it can mean anything in the world!!!! How do you associate it with Bitcoin in the first place?
What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us!
Guess he's talking about this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Credits
interesting read. Seems like Facebook is discontinuing the facebook credit idea and will refund all users in FIAT.
FinCen according to this wiki compares Facebook Credits to Bitcoin, in term of regulation at least..
What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us!
amazon, for instance?
Facebook will not be incorporating bitcoin into any payment gateways at this point due to the unreliable US dollar. If it didn't jump so fast it would be looked at.
Can't provide source, but can say they are within facebook.
Can't provide source, but can say they are within facebook.
What fake currency are you talking about? it sounds like you know something we may not. Tell us!
Unlikely.
Currently the trend is creating a fake centralised currency which actually isn't even a currency at all since you can't exchange it with other people; i.e. a credits system which trick the users into thinking it's a currency instead.
And Facebook already has credits (at least they don't pretend they are something else, AFAIK).
I guess it will be something else, completely unrelated.
Currently the trend is creating a fake centralised currency which actually isn't even a currency at all since you can't exchange it with other people; i.e. a credits system which trick the users into thinking it's a currency instead.
And Facebook already has credits (at least they don't pretend they are something else, AFAIK).
I guess it will be something else, completely unrelated.
Omg, thanks for giving me a heart attack for nothing...
Yeah, I hear Zuck is really good mates with the twins after the law suit - wants to make them rich
Let's say you could become trillionaire by making your old enemies billionaires. What would you do?
Not bloody likely
yay they're joining prisim!
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