MIT's Brian Forde: "Companies Will Be Disrupted the Most by Public Blockchains"

Brian Forde // Twitter. Brian Forde from the MIT Media Lab believes that the block chain and related technologies may serve to remind the government that they need to become more transparent and open. Forde's Digital Currency Initiative is specifically looking into ways that the block chain can be a force for social good. According to him, the block chain can be used to distribute social welfare. Forde thinks that some of the best innovations will come from the developing world, as their banking infrastructure is not as strong, and they can come up with stronger, more creative uses of the....

Brian Forde, MIT Media Lab’s director of digital currency, explained how bitcoin and the blockchain could transform the way the world does business during a podcast interview presented by Inc. Uncensored. A team of Inc. editors, led by Editor James Ledbetter, introduced Forde and asked him to give an overview of bitcoin and the blockchain before posing questions. Forde explained how the blockchain could replace some repetitive work done by lawyers, insurance companies and bankers, and how the blockchain could bring a new era of digital rights management that could change the music and....

The block chain offers the most significant records and identity authentication technology available in more than 5,000 years, and government should take the lead in adopting it. That's the message that Brian Forde, director of the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative, delivered in a recent presentation to a group of government information managers. The Huffington Post posted the presentation, in which Forde explained one of the missions of the recently-formed MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative. Brian Forde. Forde, whose presentation was titled, "Blockchain As The Next....

MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde has issued a new blog post in which he aims to draw attention to four "critical flaws" in the approach so far taken by the state of New York to regulate the digital currency industry. Coming one month after his appointment to the position, the piece finds Forde seeking to voice the leading US university's interest in bitcoin and the blockchain as technologies that could contribute to the global good. The DCI was announced in April following a year of additional grassroots efforts on campus. Perhaps most notably, Forde contended that the....

The MIT Media Lab's first digital currency director is transitioning out of his role as the leader of the research initiative. To be announced later today, former White House senior advisor Brian Forde will be migrating to MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he will serve as a senior lecturer and teach two classes on cryptocurrencies. Forde cited other factors as influencing the decision, such as his desire to move back to Los Angeles, his recent engagement to his fiancee and his desire to focus on a forthcoming book. Representatives of MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, first launched....