Massachusetts Institute of Technology Launches First Bitcoin ATM
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is now home to a new Liberty Teller bitcoin ATM, located at the MIT Coop store in Kendall Square, Cambridge, in an installation that marks MIT's first on-campus bitcoin ATM. The ATM launch represents another step in the development of what observers have labelled the development of the world's first "bitcoin economy" at MIT. Other aspects of the initiative include the distribution of $100 in bitcoin to undergraduates this coming fall, as well as the MIT Bitcoin Expo conference held in May. The MIT Coop is a member profit-sharing cooperative....
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Khan Academy -- the not-for-profit, online learning site whose mission is "a free world-class education for anyone anywhere" -- has leapt with both feet into the theory and technology of bitcoin. Earlier this week, the academy uploaded seven instructional videos about bitcoin onto its Finance and Capital Markets section. (The videos also appear on Khan Academy's YouTube channel.) Ranging in length from 10:14 to 12:14, all the videos are presented by computer security and cryptography expert Zulfikar Ramzan. Currently the chief scientist for the cloud technology group at Sourcefire, Ramzan....