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🤔 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg sees pros and cons in blockchain logins

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Feb 21, 2019 ⋅  1 min read

In an interview with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg discussed his research into decentralizing Facebook's sign-on application, Facebook Connect, via blockchain technology. Zuckerberg believes that the feature has tremendous upswing such as such as increased privacy but stronger cons at the moment such as necessary computational power and governance questions. Facebook has been adding blockchain related staff and assets, particularly since December.

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