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Cryptoeconomic Systems Launched as Open-Source Journal and Conference

An open-source journal and conference, Cryptoeconomic Systems, is forthcoming from collaborators including MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative.

MIT Bitcoin: Legislators Discuss Regulation, Potential of Blockchain Tech

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce sat down with Gary Gensler, ex-chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to discuss the progress of the SEC’s efforts to regulate the cryptocurrency industry.

IBM/MIT Connection Science Issue Report on the Role of Blockchain in Government

The report highlighted three repetitive themes that occurred throughout the roundtables, namely, the need for leadership and vision from the U.S. government, the need for collaboration between the industry and the government, and increased support for research and testbed deployments of blockchain technology.

Spark, a New GUI Lightning Wallet for Bitcoin, Now Available for Download

Spark is a web-based GUI wallet with built-in Electrum software designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend.

Beyond the Classroom: The Rise of University Blockchain Labs

“There’s real science to be done here.” We look at the role of university-based labs and their role in blockchain research and development.

Advancing Toward a Decentralized Internet in the Real World

HBO's comedy Silicon Valley features a "decentralized internet" storyline. Here are some of the actual projects underway in the real-life, blockchain world.

Learning Machine and Blockcerts Want Students to “Own Their Own Records” via Blockchain Credentialing

Learning Machine plans to take its new Bitcoin blockchain certification solution to the commercial market in 1Q 2017. This is less than a year...

MIT’s Brian Forde: “Companies Will Be Disrupted the Most by Public Blockchains”

The Exponential Finance 2016 conference, organized by Singularity University and CNBC, was held in New York on June 7 and 8. Once again, distributed...

MIT Media Lab Releases Code for Digital Certificates on the Blockchain

The MIT Media Lab's Learning Initiative and Learning Machine have released the first version of an open-source project that builds an ecosystem for creating,...

The Fintech Threat to Banking: A Solution From MIT

In the next 10 years, 30 percent of banking jobs could be obsolete, according to a recent Citi GPS report.This statistic from Citigroup’s report makes an...
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