MIT’s First Digital Currency Director is Transitioning Out
The MIT Media Lab's first digital currency director is transitioning out of his role as the leader of the research initiative. To be announced later today, former White House senior advisor Brian Forde will be migrating to MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he will serve as a senior lecturer and teach two classes on cryptocurrencies. Forde cited other factors as influencing the decision, such as his desire to move back to Los Angeles, his recent engagement to his fiancee and his desire to focus on a forthcoming book. Representatives of MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, first launched....
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Cryptocurrency stands at the forefront of technology’s efforts to utilize the power of the Internet for positive change. And according to Neha Narula, director of research at MIT’s Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, such change is needed. Instead of an interoperable data fabric, data has been siloed. Instead of access and freedom, gated app stores exist. Narula described the leadership role MIT’s Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative is taking in working to change this, Medium reported. She reviewed the numerous steps the initiative has taken to unshackle the control a few....
MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative Receives a Boost With $900,000 Raised for Bitcoin Development Fund
MIT recently announced that it has raised $900,000 for the Bitcoin Developer Fund as a part of its Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). The funds raised would be used to support Bitcoin Core development efforts. Core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan currently work as a team for the MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and, according to DCI director Brian Forde, the Bitcoin Developer Fund is intended to give the three Bitcoin coders an academic platform to work on resolving the block-size debate and other similar technical challenges. "We built out the....
Cryptocurrency stands at the forefront of technology’s efforts to utilize the power of the Internet for positive change. And according to Neha Narula, director of research at MIT’s Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, such change is needed. Instead of an interoperable data fabric, data has been siloed. Instead of access and freedom, gated app stores exist. Narula described the leadership role MIT’s Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative is taking in working to change this, writing in Medium. She reviewed the numerous steps the initiative has taken to unshackle the control a few....
MIT’s Media Lab unveiled a vending machine that accepts bitcoin with a quirky twist — it was stocked solely with Soylent. Soylent and Bitcoin? A picture of the vending machine was tweeted out by MIT’s own Ethan Zuckerman last night. In it, you can see the machine was mostly empty aside from a few bottles of Soylent. The vending machine even comes equipped with a QR code for people to conveniently scan. The machine first came to public attention sometime last year, as a few people tweeted about the possibility of MIT Lab getting a bitcoin-compatible vending machine. Speculation made its way....
Encryption inventor and head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.