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Academic Research
USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers
Sahara co-founder Sean Ren, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California, says his tech can help workers and businesses get compensated for their knowledge, data and expertise in the age of AI.

Crypto Derivatives Boom Leaves Small Traders Vulnerable to Liquidation: Carnegie Mellon
Sophisticated actors are taking from amateur investors in bitcoin derivatives trading, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers using data from BitMEX.

Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.

Free Transactions Invite Systemic Attacks on Blockchains, Researchers Find
EOS, Tezos and XRP have not seen high levels of intended use, according to a new report from researchers in London.

'Careless' Users Are Ruining Ethereum's Privacy: Paper
Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues.

Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information.

US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing 'Black Swan' Events
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency.

MIT Develops 'Spider' Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions
The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks.

Moscow Blockchain Voting System 'Completely Insecure,' Says Researcher
A blockchain system that will soon be used to allow Moscow residents to vote in elections is currently easy to hack, according to a researcher.

DARPA-Funded Study Looks at How Crypto Chats Spread on Reddit
A U.S. Department of Energy science lab has been studying how well three popular cryptos performed in Reddit chats. Here's what they found.
