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Sharing new and insightful concepts is an important activity that equips individuals with knowledge. According to data, the cryptocurrency industry has a market cap of $953B. This valuable market is therefore gaining the attention of governments and several industries related…

A recent MIT technology review has sought to downplay the near-term significance of quantum computing for Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. In a piece published on March 28, 2022, the renowned American theoretical physicist, Sankar Das Sarma, stated that there…

The Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has raised $4 million from blockchain industry leaders including MicroStrategy, CoinShares, and others, for a multi-year project aimed at strengthening the Bitcoin network, according to a press release…

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed that Voatz, a blockchain-based voting app that was used for the 2019 federal and state elections in Utah, West Virginia, and other areas. has major security flaws. As…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched a series of mini-courses covering emerging topics ranging from blockchain and artificial intelligence to 3D printing and robotics. According to Ledger Insights, the course named MIT Horizon will be available for enterprise-use as…

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative is well known in the cryptocurrency space for spearheading a lot of early research in analysis. The man who set it up, Joichi Ito, recently resigned as it was revealed that he had ties to…

Fidelity Investments is facing roadblocks on its way to being a digital currency player. While reports on June 5, 2018, suggested the institutional heavyweight is intent on building a cryptocurrency exchange, an additional report confirmed the firm’s closure of their…

The Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), a cryptocurrency and blockchain-focused research community at MIT, are demonstrating an experimental use case in the backdrop of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network that would amalgamate smart contracts with the Bitcoin network to scale further. The Lightning…

At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy held over May 22-24, MIT researchers presented a paper on a new encryption method which utilizes the underlying technologies of Bitcoin to prevent identity theft and encryption attacks. Alin Tomescu, an MIT…

The University of Melbourne is rolling out a blockchain-based student record system, one of the first in the world to utilize the technology behind Bitcoin in this way. Working in conjunction with U.S. blockchain startup Learning Machine and the Massachusetts…