MIT Media Lab Uses the Bitcoin Blockchain for Digital Certificates
MIT Media Labs digital certification project has been going on for a year now and the students learned a great deal about blockchain technology. MIT Media Lab blog has published a new paper called “What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain” which researches the attributes of using distributed ledger technology with digital certification. For a year, the team of researchers worked on a project to verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin Blockchain and Mozilla Open Badges. The MIT Researchers say the Bitcoin Blockchain is the ‘most tested and....
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Holberton Software Engineering School announced it will become the first school to deliver academic certificates that are secured and accessible via Bitcoin’s blockchain. To this end, the school has collaborated with Bitcoin startup Bitproof that specializes in document certification on the blockchain. The new blockchain-powered certificates should make it easier for employers to verify job candidates’ backgrounds and reduce the number of false resumes. According to the information in Holberton school blog, each graduate will be given a paper certificate and a Digital Certificate Number....
South Korea's SK Telecom is issuing a blockchain solution for the storage and management of government certificates. The South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom has announced it will issue its first digital wallet for blockchain-powered digital certificate storage and management with the approval of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security.According to NewsTomato, SK’s Wallet is compatible with the ministry’s own Government24 digital certificate initiative, which promotes the use of electronic certificate issuance and distribution systems in South Korea in the wake of the COVID-19....
Members of the MIT Media Lab have related in a Medium post what they have learned from designing a system for issuing academic certificates using bitcoin blockchain technology. The team released version 1 of its code under its open source license to allow others to experiment with similar ideas. The lab wants to share its ideas behind the design. The team members who authored the blog include Juliana Nazare, a graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at the lab, Kim Hamilton Duffy, a principal engineer at Learning Machine, and J. Philipp Schmidt, director of learning....
Blockchain is making its presence felt in diverse fields. In the field of education at least the news has centered on the courses that the universities are offering and the buzz that these courses have created. However, blockchain is now going to ensure that your school certificates are authentic too; this is quite similar to the nascent trend in the music industry which is trying to look for ways by which to use this technology to ensure fair licensing and global royalty distribution. Therefore, keeping these developments in mind the announcement by Holberton School, that it would use the....
Back in June MIT Media Lab tested certification authentication using the Bitcoin blockchain. After working on research and development for over a year, the school organization has released an open standard for digital academic certificates called Blockcerts. Blockcerts Enables Immutable Certification for Anyone. Blockcerts is a MIT Media Lab project....