How MIT is Using Ripple to Push Blockchain Research Beyond Theory
MIT has moved its blockchain research from the blackboard to the real world through a partnership with distributed ledger tech startup Ripple. While MIT has long been involved in supporting the bitcoin and blockchain industries through research, the aim of this project is to develop blockchain, financial services and other enterprise data projects, the university said. Project director David Shrier, of MIT Connection Science, said he expects this most recent step to attract a wide range of researchers, more than doubling in size its first six months of operation. Shrier told CoinDesk:....
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