Kin (Kin) Founder Predicts The Real Reason Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency - News, Price, Events
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As you may know, Facebook is working on its own cryptocurrency stablecoin. Like with many big businesses, the reasoning behind such an asset is unknown at this time. But, one industry expert Ted Livingston, the founder and CEO of chat app Kik and its respective cryptocurrency, Kin (KIN) has some predictions.
In a Medium post, Livingston details what he thinks to be the real reasoning behind Facebook’s cryptocurrency, and it isn’t what you might think. To sum it up, the CEO believes Mark Zuckerberg is working to replace the U.S. dollar.
To start, Livingston describes Facebook’s recent moves in that it wants to move from “open sharing to private communications”. This is largely due to the anxiety openness is causing within citizens around the world. Users are now moving towards more private, intimate groups to avoid the stress.
However, how will Facebook and other social media groups make money if they can’t broadcast ads to a public network? Livingston details Kik’s no-ad approach, claiming that “after ten years of searching the only good way we’ve found is with a cryptocurrency”.
He then goes into Facebook’s plan, which is similar. However, the difference here is that “Facebook is going after something much bigger” than a digital form of currency. “It looks like they are going to create a currency for the physical world.
”The post brings up Chinese communication app WeChat, and the fact that over $10 trillion in payments are made every year through the application. This is largely due to the app adding features like food and vacation payments so users can keep their money within that one space.
Livingston thinks Facebook will follow this same route.
Tether is another popular stablecoin.
He breaks Facebook’s proposed plan into three steps: Remittances, Blockchain, and the Platform.
Today, the process of remittances, or payments that are sent, is undeniably slow and expensive. Foreign countries have it worse, with “the average fee of $14 to send just $200”. Facebook changing this up, allowing users to transact for free (aka with a stablecoin), this would be a “game changer for tens of millions of people.”
Livingston details the blockchain’s trustless nature. With a blockchain technology in place, Facebook could “enable payment functionality in their apps without needing to become a bank”. Essentially, they can form a global payment protocol without needing to worry about laws and regulations in each country.
By allowing transactions within its blockchain app, Facebook will keep users’ finances within its platform instead of a traditional bank. Over time, just like WeChat, the social media giant will provide more ways to spend that currency on bills, food, and more within the Facebook network. Eventually, no one will have to take their money out.After detailing a few more examples, Livingston ends with this:
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In a Medium post, Livingston details what he thinks to be the real reasoning behind Facebook’s cryptocurrency, and it isn’t what you might think. To sum it up, the CEO believes Mark Zuckerberg is working to replace the U.S. dollar.
To start, Livingston describes Facebook’s recent moves in that it wants to move from “open sharing to private communications”. This is largely due to the anxiety openness is causing within citizens around the world. Users are now moving towards more private, intimate groups to avoid the stress.
However, how will Facebook and other social media groups make money if they can’t broadcast ads to a public network? Livingston details Kik’s no-ad approach, claiming that “after ten years of searching the only good way we’ve found is with a cryptocurrency”.
He then goes into Facebook’s plan, which is similar. However, the difference here is that “Facebook is going after something much bigger” than a digital form of currency. “It looks like they are going to create a currency for the physical world.
”The post brings up Chinese communication app WeChat, and the fact that over $10 trillion in payments are made every year through the application. This is largely due to the app adding features like food and vacation payments so users can keep their money within that one space.
Livingston thinks Facebook will follow this same route.
Tether is another popular stablecoin.He breaks Facebook’s proposed plan into three steps: Remittances, Blockchain, and the Platform.
Remittances
Today, the process of remittances, or payments that are sent, is undeniably slow and expensive. Foreign countries have it worse, with “the average fee of $14 to send just $200”. Facebook changing this up, allowing users to transact for free (aka with a stablecoin), this would be a “game changer for tens of millions of people.”
The Blockchain
Livingston details the blockchain’s trustless nature. With a blockchain technology in place, Facebook could “enable payment functionality in their apps without needing to become a bank”. Essentially, they can form a global payment protocol without needing to worry about laws and regulations in each country.
The Platform
By allowing transactions within its blockchain app, Facebook will keep users’ finances within its platform instead of a traditional bank. Over time, just like WeChat, the social media giant will provide more ways to spend that currency on bills, food, and more within the Facebook network. Eventually, no one will have to take their money out.After detailing a few more examples, Livingston ends with this:
“People who understand crypto might argue that this doesn’t matter. That because the value of a Facecoin is pegged to the value of a dollar, they are essentially just dollars that run on a blockchain. To me this is the most important part. Not that long ago the world’s reserve currency was gold, where the value of a dollar was pegged to the value of gold. But then one day the US decided to unpeg the dollar from gold, paving the way for the dollar to replace gold as the world’s reserve currency. So here is my question: what will stop Facebook from doing the same?”
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst There is some truth to what this article says. If FB Coin is successfully adopted, the world market will be tremendous. But we think is to early to say it would replace the USD. Fiat money is strong and Central banks are needed, and for a long time, although the 4th IR will transform them, to be real controllers and regulators.