Bitcoin Core Developers Join MIT Digital Currency Initiative
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative is stepping up to take a larger role in bitcoin development, announcing today that core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the project in a full-time capacity. Andresen, Fields and van der Laan had previously been supported financially by the Bitcoin Foundation, an industry trade group that has been in the midst of pivoting due to funding constraints. MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde expressed his view that the move would help bring stability to developers, an environment he suggested had been....
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Lead Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen, chief scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, has announced that he and other Bitcoin Core developers are joining the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. A few days ago Bitcoin Magazine reported that the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab announced the launch of a Digital Currency Initiative, to be directed by former White House senior adviser for mobile and data innovation Brian Forde. The MIT Digital Currency Initiative will integrate researchers across the institute and leading experts at other universities around the world....
Former lead developer and chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen, announced on a blog post that the three Bitcoin core developers who were funded by the Bitcoin Foundation, will join the MIT Media Lab's newly established Digital Currency initiative. Talking to CoinTelegraph, Digital Currency Initiative's head, Brian Forde, said: BitSIM, a dual-chip overlay that is physically placed atop a phone's regular SIM card, will turn your phone – even if it's a "dumb" phone – into a Bitcoin wallet. "The Digital Currency Initiative is not hosting a development NOR a standards body.....
The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will host three Bitcoin core developers at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative today. An MLTalks (MIT Labs) session will see three Bitcoin core developers in a conversation session hosted by former White House advisor Brian Forde today. The event is scheduled to start Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM. A live webcast can be found streaming here. Gavin Anderson, Cory Fields and Wladmir Wan der Laan are all expected to attend, Gavin Andersen, as many bitcoin enthusiasts already know took over as Satoshi Nakamoto as....
Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have joined the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in full-time positions. While making the announcement via a blog post, Gavin stated that the developers collectively decided that MIT is the best place to continue their work on Bitcoin Core. Gavin Andresen is the co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization which was formed to benefit the Bitcoin ecosystem but has rather been mired in controversies. Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan have been formerly associated with the foundation as well. Gavin took....
Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields have taken their development efforts back to school, in a sense. Andresen, who lives about two hours from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Amherst, Mass., wrote on his blog yesterday: I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the MIT Media Lab's newly launched Digital Currency Initiative to continue my work on the Bitcoin project. So, does this mean that MIT has taken over from the Foundation as the center for "core development"? No. The Bitcoin Foundation was never the center of development; the Bitcoin Core open-source....