MIT to Host Bitcoin Core Developers
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....
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