MIT Launches Blockcerts Certification Using Bitcoin
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....
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Learning Machine plans to take its new Bitcoin blockchain certification solution to the commercial market in 1Q 2017. This is less than a year after its June 2016 launch of the open standard Blockcerts toolset, which it built in collaboration with MIT Media Lab. The partnership came about as a result of the company’s work on admissions systems for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Philipp Schmidt, Director of Learning Innovation for MIT Media Lab, summarized the history of Blockcerts and its team of collaborators, in his October 24 column on Medium. Learning Machine is a....
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We are in a digital currency age. In the past couple of years, the startup ecosystem has experienced a bitcoin boom signified by an increasing number of startups focusing on bitcoin and blockchain related technologies. The advantages of blockchain technology is now widely recognized, especially by the banking and financial sectors. The growth of interest in cryptocurrency technologies and its implementation in various critical operations makes it important to ensure the quality of software standards in terms of usability and security is fit to meet the requirements of the....