> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money. Let's observe that WhatsApp besides just bein

> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money. Let's observe that WhatsApp besides just being a popular app, is a scalable and high performance messaging app, meaning to emphasize that you can't hit this level without some amazing engineering feats [1]. I think that we can also agree that a company that can build something of this sort might be valuable in itself without generating any sort of revenue. If it can make Facebook more productive/efficient over the coming years, it very well might be worth its weight in bitcoin. [1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...