BILL GATES has been tipped to back Facebook's plans to produce a digital currency in a move that would make the social media platform 'into the new Amazon,' leading cryptocurrency expert Professor Carol Alexander has told Exprerss.co.uk.
and French luxury goods owner Bernard Arnault, but should his fortune be split in half experts say he could drop to number 17. While Mr Gates has been quite critical of Bitcoin, the 65-year-old has praised the “really good technology” of blockchain – the decentralised ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network.And while Prof Alexander, from the University of Sussex Business School, believes Mr Gates would not create a rival cryptocurrency, she told Express.co.
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