2019-2-7 17:40 |
Backed by $162 million in investments and MIT, Algorand may become the first scalable blockchain working on the proof-of-stake protocol
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While blockchain networks are often touted for their added security and transparency, MIT professor Stuart Madnick hopes to dispel some misunderstandings between “blockchain the concept” and “blockchain the system.”
2019-6-7 23:55 | |
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The sixth Annual MIT Bitcoin Expo is coming up in Boston. Read on to find out more. MIT Bitcoin EXPO 2019 Background The MIT Bitcoin Club is a regular annual event for students and blockchain enthusiasts, held at MIT.
2019-2-3 15:11 | |
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A new cryptocurrency was recently unveiled by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researches which claims to reduce the data needed to join the network and verify transactions by up to 99% compared to other popular cryptos.
2019-1-26 20:34 | |
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MIT wants to scale the blockchain.
2019-1-25 23:04 | |
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Speaking with Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia radio show January 21, 2019, professor Silvio Micali of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spoke positively on the future of blockchain, believing that global blockchain development can lead to the establishment a truly borderless economy.
2019-1-23 06:00 | |
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Blockchain technology could help create a borderless economy. This is what MIT professor Silvio Micali said during a conversation with Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia on January 21. At the same time, during the interview, he discussed the latest developments in blockchain technology.
2019-1-22 05:18 | |
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Blockchain, Cryptocurrency–Silvio Micali, the Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims that development of blockchain on a global scale could lead to the creation of a truly borderless economy.
2019-1-22 04:41 | |
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Once a blockchain system successfully combines security, decentralization and scalability, a borderless economy can be achieved, says MIT professor
2019-1-22 21:17 | |
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America’s best brains in academic studies are now working together to create a new digital currency. According to a recent report from Fortune, professors from MIT and Stanford are working together to create a new cryptocurrency that intends to do what Bitcoin cannot yet: process thousands of transactions per second.
2019-1-21 20:29 | |
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A Switzerland-based non profit organization called Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) announced a cryptocurrency called Unit-e this past week. In a press release published on January 17, DTR described Unit-e as a “globally scalable decentralized payments network” and a “killer application” for blockchain.
2019-1-18 22:42 | |
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Introducing Unit-e.
2019-1-19 21:48 | |
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A non-profit group comprised of MIT and bay area academics, as well as hedge fund Pantera Capital was formed to develop a coin that can offer faster speeds of processing transactions than Bitcoin. How to Make Unit-e More than a “Nice Idea” Teachers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Berkeley’s University in California along with five other.
2019-1-19 19:00 | |
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US academics are working together to create a new and improved cryptocurrency in a bid to rival Bitcoin. According to Bloomberg, professors from seven US colleges (including MIT, University of California, Standford University, and Berkely) are looking to create a digital currency capable of processing thousands of transactions a second without sacrificing the basic principle of decentralization.
2019-1-17 17:24 | |
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CoinSpeaker MIT Technology Review: Blockchain to Become Mundane in 2019 MIT Technology Review published an article, providing an overview of the recent history of blockchain and explaining why it will start to become mundane in 2019.
2019-1-3 14:50 | |
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MIT Technology Review has argued that 2019 will be the year of hype-less, mainstream implementation of blockchain technology
2019-1-3 16:24 | |
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Michael Casey, the co-founder of Network Effects Media, senior advisor for MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, and a long-time crypto… The post Flawed Cryptocurrency Valuation Models Harming Industry appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-12-18 00:00 | |
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According to MIT Technology Review’s on December 4, 2018, security researchers have discovered a machine learning algorithm that can spot cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes in advance, which can help prevent and stop any pump-and-dump projects from developing further.
2018-12-7 02:00 | |
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MIT and Elastos cooperate on a Blockchain Technology Development and Research Group Feng Han, the co-founder of Elastos, earlier this autumn donated $5 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s initiative to establish an in-university blockchain research wing.
2018-11-16 23:37 | |
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South Korea’s leading technology university, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working with Theta Labs, the first blockchain-based video delivery system, to introduce students to an entirely new set of coursework regarding the applications of blockchain technology.
2018-11-15 01:26 | |
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Binance recently talked about this past weekend’s activity with students at the Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University. Binance Labs, the investment arm of the largest crypto exchange in the world held a meetup titled, “State of Blockchain: A Chat with Binance Labs.
2018-11-1 21:59 | |
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Стартап Algorand из Бостона, основанный профессором Массачусетского технологического института (MIT) и лауреатом премии Тьюринга Сильвио Микали, привлек инвестиции в размере $62 млн. Algorand announces @stevekokinos & @wsford as CEO & COO of Algorand.
2018-10-25 13:07 | |
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MIT Academics-Led Blockchain Startup Algorand Raises $62 Million for Enterprise Use Algorand, a blockchain startup launched earlier this year by an MIT computer science professor, has now raised $62 million and named a pair of high-profile Boston tech executives to lead the effort to commercialize its technology. The funding comes from a list of about […]
2018-10-25 04:57 | |
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Algorand, the blockchain protocol founded by MIT professor and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali, has raised $62 million in new funding.
2018-10-24 11:15 | |
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There is perhaps no doubt that blockchain, cryptocurrency’s underlying technology, has soared in popularity over the past few years. Top colleges, including Princeton University, the University of California Berkeley and Cornell University, are now offering courses dedicated to cryptography and blockchain.
2018-10-18 15:00 | |
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Many leading academic players including Harvard University, Stanford University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have reportedly invested in crypto-centric funds. The revelation indicates the shift of interest of institutional investors towards the growing asset class.
2018-10-16 17:30 | |
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The Senate Banking Committee has been hearing testimonies from various stakeholders in the cryptocurrency industry and their opposers. Legislators are yet to decide if cryptocurrency, and thus the technology behind it, is the most significant technological innovations of this generation or the “mother of all scams,” as notable economist Nouriel Roubini calls it.
2018-10-15 12:49 | |
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MIT Hacking Connects Art and Blockchain On October 13 and 14, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be hosting the sixth annual Hacking Arts festival. The event explores the intersection of art and technology in a broad sense.
2018-10-4 19:24 | |
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The student-run festival will bring together art professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
2018-10-4 20:32 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) has been under unprecedented sell pressure these past few weeks. This pressure has been a result of the growing number of ETH Shorts on exchanges like Bitfinex. Recently, Jeremy Rubin, founder of MIT Digital Currency Initiative said that the price of Ethereum (ETH) will go to zero.
2018-10-1 18:30 | |
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This past week saw a flurry of reports and analyses released by various agencies and companies, speculating on the roles — past and present — of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.
2018-9-29 20:00 | |
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On September 24, 2018, MIT Connection Science and IBM issued a 41-page joint report on the results of three roundtable discussions on the role of Blockchain in government.
2018-9-27 22:12 | |
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Blockchain reduces paper processes, speeds up transaction times, increases efficiencies and builds trust among participants to a transaction, according to Sept. 23 IBM report on how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve how the federal government does business.
2018-9-26 23:15 | |
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An analysis from IBM research division, MIT Connection Science, and the Congressional Blockchain Caucus also called for more funding for distributed ledger technology research.
2018-9-26 19:57 | |
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Spark is a web-based GUI wallet designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend. The platform allows for easy spending and receiving of bitcoins over the Lightning Network, which is renowned for its payment speeds.
2018-9-11 22:32 | |
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Jeremy Rubin, a technical advisor to Stellar, a Bitcoin Core Contributor, advisor to early-stage crypto startups, and founder of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, has said that Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, will eventually lose its value and hit zero.
2018-9-4 20:00 | |
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This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
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Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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Another massive security vulnerability in a major cryptocurrency has been discovered, just sitting there, waiting to be exploited – and this time around it’s Bitcoin Cash. Its blockchain was open to being jammed with a toxic block that would have caused complete consensus failure.
2018-8-10 17:49 | |
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On Thursday, August 9, a developer and researcher in the crypto industry detailed the difficulties he had communicating a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Cash protocol to their dev team. Cory Fields from the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts outlined the issue in a post on his Medium blog.
2018-8-10 12:02 | |
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Researchers have been diligently prodding cryptocurrency and blockchain companies for kinks in their security – and it seems some of them are finally getting recognition for their work. Three researchers are up for Pwnie Awards this year – an annual showcase of the best and worst in information security.
2018-8-8 19:35 | |
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American troops serving overseas will be able to cast their votes in West Virginia through a mobile voting platform based on blockchain technology in the federal elections in November 2018.
2018-8-7 23:05 | |
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That said, the DCI’s role in leading more open research on the Lightning Network means that its output can’t be quantified simply in terms of papers. Added to this, several of the ‘non-DCI’ papers listed reveal that the DCI still plays an influential role in informing MIT’s wider academic output. As for the European Blockchain
2018-7-31 05:29 | |
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Gary Gensler was chairman of the U. S Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) between 2009 and 2014, right after the global financial crisis. Today, Gensler is part of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, lecturing students on blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-23 08:00 | |
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Cointelegraph recently spoke to Guy Zyskind, the founder and CEO of decentralized blockchain company Enigma and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), about the future of blockchain protocols and where Enigma fits in.
2018-7-19 21:10 | |
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A built-from-scratch blockchain aiming to enable private contracts between users has officially entered testing. Announced Saturday, the news marks the latest step in a journey for startup Engima to launch its own technology – developed at the MIT Media Lab, the project is based on a white paper published in 2015. Initially aimed at the
2018-7-2 08:21 | |
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“The Cereal business model is one of the best I’ve seen in the blockchain space. ” The Cayman Islands, June 30, 2018 — Cereal, a fintech startup & blockchain platform for crypto asset and mining rid-based lending market, has announced that prominent MIT professor John R.
2018-7-1 21:59 | |
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With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development.
2018-6-11 17:04 | |
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Министерство промышленности и информационных технологий КНР (MIT) планирует обновить национальные технологические стандарты, применяемые в отношении финтех-компаний и блокчейн-индустрии.
The Bank of England has decided to collaborate with MIT regarding the development of a CBDC. The Bank of England is the latest bank that has expressed interest in exploring the scope of a CBDC. This latest partnership is with MIT’s Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative, through which BoE seeks to inspect and understand potential […]
The Federal Reserve is actively working on a central bank digital currency and some prototypes are near completion. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plan to unveil two prototypes of a digital dollar as early as July.
The Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has raised $4 million from blockchain industry leaders including MicroStrategy, CoinShares, and others, for a multi-year project aimed at strengthening the Bitcoin network, according to a press release on February 25, 2021.
In the U.S., all eyes are on Joe Biden's planned appointees, while Europe is seeing progress under a new AML regime.
New audit of Voatz echoes an earlier MIT report, finding numerous issues with the platform
An open-source journal and conference, Cryptoeconomic Systems, is forthcoming from collaborators including MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The post Cryptoeconomic Systems Launched as Open-Source Journal and Conference appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.