Posts tagged decentralized web
MIT DCI research scientist Daniel Aronoff discusses fintech innovation at MIT Research and Development Conference
MIT DCI research scientist Daniel Aronoff discusses fintech innovation at MIT Research and Development Conference

In November, MIT Digital Currency Initiative research scientist Daniel Aronoff participated in a panel discussion along with Ed Golding, Executive Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance, on fintech and the digitization of finance at the MIT Research and Development Conference. The lively conversation touched on many topics relevant to DCI’s work, including safeguarding privacy in central bank digital currencies, decentralizing repo markets through smart contracts, and the future of cash.

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MIT DCI presents research on treasury repo markets
MIT DCI presents research on treasury repo markets

MIT DCI research scientist Daniel Aronoff shared his work on US Treasury repo markets on two occasions this fall. He spoke on the “Repo on chain and collateral mobilization” panel at the 2023 Rates & Repo North America, and participated in the NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting. You can find information about his ongoing research on this topic here, and watch a video of the panel below.

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The New York Times quotes Neha Narula in 'Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?'
The New York Times quotes Neha Narula in 'Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?'

A decentralized internet was hailed as a way to dethrone Twitter and Facebook. But to the tech giants, the idea could unload some of their burdens.

By Nathaniel Popper Dec. 18, 2019. The New York Times.

SAN FRANCISCO — Not so long ago, the technology behind Bitcoin was seen in Silicon Valley as the best hope for challenging the enormous, centralized power of companies like Twitter and Facebook. 

Now, in an unexpected twist, the internet giants think that technology could help them solve their many problems.

The chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, said last week that he hoped to fund the creation of software for social media that, inspired by the design of Bitcoin, would give Twitter less control over how people use the service and shift power toward users and outside programmers.

Read the full article here

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