David Marcus Launches Bitcoin Payments Startup Lightspark
David Marcus, former cryptocurrency head at Meta, is launching Lightspark, another payments company that will use crypto as its central payment tool. The startup, which will have Marcus at the helm as CEO, also features some of Meta’s former employees and will explore the possibilities of using the layer 2 Lightning Network (LN) as a vehicle for bitcoin payments. Meta’s Former Crypto Boss Kickstarts Lightspark David Marcus, former cryptocurrency project boss at Meta, is doubling down on the importance he thinks crypto might have for payments in the future. Marcus....
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David Marcus, former lead of Facebook Messenger, announced the creation of Lightspark, a Lightning Network infrastructure company.
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In a captivating revelation during the “What Bitcoin Did” podcast with Peter McCormack, David Marcus, the former spearhead of Facebook’s Libra project and now CEO & co-founder of Lightspark, made intriguing comments about Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s perspective on Bitcoin. Zuckerberg’s Take On Bitcoin In the exchange between McCormack and Marcus, the former asked, “You […]
Former Head of Payments David Marcus stated that Bitcoin is set to become the most critical network to take payments to a new era. Marcus believes the global payment infrastructure is absolute and will benefit from integrating with the cryptocurrency. Related Reading: Weekly Bitcoin And Crypto Preview: Don’t Miss These 5 Market-Moving Events Bitcoin Lightning, […]
Earlier today, Andrew Aude, a Stanford Computer Science student, posted to twitter with pictures of Facebook Messenger's new P2P "FB Payments" functionality. Aude and other commentators likened Facebook's new payment system to SquareCash or Venmo. FB Payments has been in the making for a long time and has recently been revamped by Facebook's hire of David Marcus, former president of PayPal. David Marcus is an admitted supporter of Bitcoin and likely played an instrumental role in PayPal's warming up to Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin via Braintree. Since hiring Marcus, Facebook CEO Mark....