MIT's Bitcoin Expo and the Students Behind It
This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. MIT's students have made the news again. Dan Elitzer, president and founder of MIT's Bitcoin Club, and Jeremy Rubin, a sophomore in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, have organized the MIT Bitcoin Expo which will be held this Saturday, May 3rd at MIT's Compton Laboratories Building 26-100. The talks start at 12:00pm and will feature Gavin Andresen, a core developer of the bitcoin protocol. James D'Angelo, founder and host of the World Bitcoin Network; and Alan Reiner, founder and CEO of Armory Technologies, among others.....
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