Wait. What? Why?!?! The next thing you are going to tell me is that Facebook will be using your CPU cycles to mine while you use Facebook. 😒
Facebook is exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, a virtual token that would allow its billions of users around the world to make electronic payments, people familiar with Facebook’s plans told Cheddar. Facebook started studying blockchain almost a year ago, when a member of its corporate development team, Morgan Beller, began looking at how the social platform could use the emerging technology.