Mark Zuckerberg believes that users must be empowered through cryptocurrencies
Zuckerberg believes that technology companies face a challenge: centralization vs. Decentralization and digital currencies can help solve it.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the social media giant, Facebook, recently spoke about his annual challenge. It is a retrospective look at the main events of the year to assess what is coming, and what Zuckerberg envisions is the "taking power of centralized systems" through the use of encryption and cryptocurrencies.
In this way, the famous developer believes that technology companies are facing a challenge of remarkable importance: centralization versus decentralization, and also stated that he has also reflected on the current obstacles facing his company. Zuckerberg still remembers the difficult year for him that was 2009, since Facebook still had to make a profit and he, who today is 33 years old and at that time 25, had "a pretty serious year, one in which he wore a tie almost everyday".
Facebook started in the Harvard dormitory at Zuckerberg in early 2004, and quickly expanded with great popularity; Later, in 2005, the platform already had millions of members around the world, and today the network already has more than two billion registered users. In fact, the site ranks third in the area of communications technology - both in the United States and in the rest of the world - being surpassed only by Google and YouTube.
According to Zuckerberg:
"The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook still has a lot of work to do. We currently make too many mistakes to enforce our policies and prevent the misuse of our tools. "
But the thing did not end there, because the acclaimed entrepreneur said:
At this moment, one of the most interesting topics of technology is centralization versus decentralization. Many of us enter this world because we believe that technology can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in the hands of people; after all, the first four words of Facebook's mission have always been 'empowering people'. "
However, reports about Facebook and other technology-based companies that cooperate with legal authorities, helping them gather large personal information networks, have affected the average user's confidence in the use of these sites. Zuckerberg points out:
With the emergence of a small number of large corporations and governments that want to use technology to monitor their citizens, many people have lost faith and believe that these advances only centralize power rather than decentralize it. "
As a possible response to centralization, the creator of Facebook said that through "encryption and cryptocurrencies" it is possible to "take the power of centralized systems and put it back in the hands of people."
