the The Social Media giant Facebook wants to expand its Blockchain Team. The company has released 19 job ads, most of them in the area of Product and Engineering on Blockchain-based. The Team is expected to grow to 60 people. Already in December Insider information on the development of a Stable Coin for WhatsApp User. In addition, users can find data according to CEO Marc Zuckerberg may be in the future a place on the Blockchain.
Polina Khubbeeva
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Facebook provides: in the Future, a Team of 60 people will be working on the development of the Blockchain for the Social Media company that are three Times as many employees as in December 2018.
Facebook relies on Blockchain-experts
The Blockchain-Task-Force was founded in may of 2018 and is headed by David Marcus, previously responsible for Facebook Messenger, as well as member of the Board at Coinbase and PayPal-in-chief. Most of the positions in the Team are in the Product – and to situate Engineering field. Under the advertised job offers for product Manager, Business Operator, security expert and Brand Manager.
While the current 19 vacancies, the for locations Menlo Park, Washington DC., San Francisco and Israel are advertised on external appointments indicate, the Team currently, the majority of internal employees. They have previously had leading positions in various product teams, such as WhatsApp and Instagram.
The show descriptions that contain few concrete activities, that Facebook wants to focus on a new technology field and position.
Facebook’s crypto ambitions
since at least December 2018, it is considered to be safe, that Facebook has big plans in the area of the Blockchain: A Feature first, only on the Indian market, should allow, according to insiders via WhatsApp transactions with crypto-currencies. The specially of Facebook developed a Stable Coin would probably be pegged to the US Dollar. The project is still in the early stages.
On the 20. February has explained Mark Zuckerberg in a Interview with Harvard Professor Zittrain other crypto-plans of the company in Detail. This was primarily to issues of privacy and encryption of user data. The use of Blockchain of interest to Zuckerberg, in particular, in the case of the authentication of the user that is decentralized organized.
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