Facebook / Zuckerberg Says Facebook to Look Into Cryptocurrency

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave digital money lovers a little confidence for the new year.

Zuckerberg referenced cryptographic forms of money in a posting Thursday in which he laid out how he will burn through 2018 attempting to amend tireless issues - — including the expansion of despise discourse and falsehood - — that have persistent his fiercely well known informal community for as long as two years.

"There are critical counter-patterns to this - encryption and cryptographic money - that take influence from brought together frameworks and set it back into individuals' hands," Zuckerberg composed. "Be that as it may, they accompany the danger of being harder to control. I'm intrigued to go further and examine the positive and negative parts of these advances, and how best to utilize them in our administrations."

Zuckerberg isn't the main Facebook official communicating enthusiasm for the space. David Marcus, the organization's VP of informing items, joined the leading group of Coinbase Inc., one of the biggest crypto trades, toward the end of last year.

"I've been included with, and intrigued by digital forms of money since 2012, and I've seen how Coinbase has begun democratizing access to this new resource class," Marcus said on Coinbase's blog Dec. 12.

What this may mean for the advanced money world stays to be seen.