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David Marcus, Facebook vice president and the former head of its Messenger division, has stepped down from Coinbase's Board. Combined with the stealth meetings between Facebook and Stellar, many are speculating that the social network has a Kin-like coin offering in the works.
Earlier this year, financial news outlet Cheddar reported that multiple sources had said that Facebook is “specifically interested in creating its own digital token, which would allow its more than two billion users to facilitate transactions without government-backed currency.” Cryptocurrency has also been on the mind of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said that one of his personal challenges for 2018 is to learn more about technologies “like encryption and cryptocurrency.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/something-brewing-facebook-cryptocurrency-division-174325911.html
