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David Marcus<\/a>, formerly an executive at PayPal and Meta\/Facebook, commented on his goals for Bitcoin development during a Sept. 11<\/a> interview on CNBC.<\/p>\n

Marcus began by describing his current company, Lightspark, which is building payment solutions for Bitcoin's Lightning Network<\/a>. He said:<\/p>\n

“What we're trying to do is turn Bitcoin into a real global payment network … we're still in the fax era of global payments and that's what we're attempting to solve.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcus emphasized throughout the interview that most popular payment services do not fully support international transactions or cross-application transactions. By contrast, he suggested that many other online services, such as texting, emailing, and video conferencing, can be accessed by their users almost universally.<\/p>\n

He also called international transactions an enormous business opportunity, with “trillions of dollars of transactions” taking place on existing networks.<\/p>\n

When asked whether Bitcoin's adoption as a real-world currency could result in a higher market value for the asset, Marcus said:<\/p>\n

“Our view is actually that Bitcoin is not the currency that people will use to buy things … the actual net settlement layer that is used is basically Bitcoin Lightning and it settles in real time, cash final, and at a very, very low cost.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcus added that this approach allows for currency exchange \u2014 including dollars, Japanese yen, and euros \u2014 “at the edges of the network.” He did not clarify whether this is a basic feature of Lightning or a planned feature of his own Lightspark project.<\/p>\n

Marcus has a long crypto and payments history<\/h2>\n

Before creating Lighstpark, Marcus served as Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, now known as Meta. After taking on that role in 2014, Marcus moved to a blockchain group within Facebook in 2018 in order to lead development on the company's now-defunct Diem stablecoin and Novi wallet. He left the company in 2021.<\/p>\n

He also served as Vice President and President at PayPal<\/a> between 2011 and 2014. Incidentally, Marcus commented on PayPal's current stablecoin goals<\/a> in a conversation with Axios on Sept. 8<\/a>. There, he suggested that PayPal is likely in a better position to launch a stablecoin than Meta in part due to PayPal's existing payment services.<\/p>\n

Marcus briefly served on Coinbase's<\/a> Board of Directors from 2017 to 2018 but left that position in order to work on blockchain products at Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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