Andrew Bosworth, future CTO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, posted an internal blockchain memo on December 21. According to New York Times, who took note of it, the head of the company explains ” My general orientation is to target deep compatibility with the blockchain “.
Web3 fashion or reality?
During a brief exchange earlier this week on Twitter, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the social network and CEO of a Bitcoin company, gently mocked “web3”. Surprisingly, both are particularly interested in blockchain technology.
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Supposed to succeed web 2.0, where everyone can express themselves freely on the networks, while being prisoners of a few platforms, web3, based on the blockchain, would make it possible to begin a return to a decentralized, freer Internet.
Elon Musk displayed his skepticism by asking where he was now, Jack Dorsey replied ” somewhere between a and z “. An allusion to Marc Andreessen, owner of the venture capital fund A16z, very active in web technologies3 and incidentally a member of the board of directors of Meta.
It’s somewhere between a and z
– jack⚡️ (@jack) December 21, 2021
The latter will probably be delighted to see that Andrew Bosworth is more optimistic than the two men on this prospect. If he remains cautious about Meta’s use of the Blockchain, he opens a door.
In the note, the New York Times reports that it is written about the blockchain ” There aren’t many places yet where I would expect us to depend exclusively on it, but if we see an opportunity to work together with entrepreneurs in the web3 space, I would expect it to be. worth it “.
Facebook has already been interested in the world of blockchain, more than other iconic web 2.0 platforms, developing its own cryptocurrency, Diem. A project strewn with pitfalls, but for many other reasons.
Meta plus blockchain equals metaverse?
Andrew Bosworth is known so far for having worked in the field of augmented and virtual reality. His appointment in 2022 as CTO of Meta in 2022 is consistent with the company’s Metavers bet.
In this world fantasized by Mark Zuckerberg and his senior executives, digital currencies or other non-fungible tokens would have their place. This is a distant future and Andrew Bosworth’s note is, for the moment, only a ” general orientation Cautious.