Digital Currency Initiative


Markets

MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative Raises $4M for Effort to ‘Harden’ Bitcoin

Prominent backers include CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor.

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Policy

Boston Fed Is Looking at '30 to 40' Blockchain Networks for Digital Dollar Experiments

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is evaluating more than 30 different blockchain networks to determine if they would support a digital dollar

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is one of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks in the U.S., and is evaluating more than 30 blockchain platforms for a possible future central bank digital currency. (Beland/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

That Time We Gave $500,000 in Bitcoin to College Kids...

A thriving bitcoin community emerged at MIT after two students put together a $500,000 bitcoin distribution project.

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Markets

3 Big Blockchain Ideas MIT is Working on Right Now

CoinDesk looks at notable MIT Digital Currency Initiative projects, from reshaping the web, to making blockchains more confidential and auditable.

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