Tadge Dryja, research scientist at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, is featured in this recent WIRED article by Sandra Upson, "The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper." Tadge continues to lead the development of Lightning, now with us at the MIT Media Lab.
Read MoreOn Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. The headline stated that the currency “could outperform Bitcoin.” However, we here at the MIT Media Lab have issues with the story.
Read MoreWe might best understand Bitcoin as a microcosm of how a new, decentralized, and automated financial system could work.
Read MoreImagine that every EHR sent updates about medications, problems, and allergy lists to an open-source, community-wide trusted ledger, so additions and subtractions to the medical record were well understood and auditable across organizations.
Read MoreThe Web has steadily evolved into an ecosystem of large, corporate-controlled mega-platforms which intermediate speech online. In this report we explore two important ways structurally decentralized systems could help address this.
Read MoreThere are tremendous potential applications for blockchain technology, an innovative distributed ledger database system, within the real estate industry. This paper explores the recording of property titles.
Read MoreCatena enables applications to start their own "micro-blockchain" within a blockchain like Bitcoin. A paper by Alin Tomescu and Srini Devadas, MIT CSAIL
Read MoreAn incubation project by the Media Lab Learning Initiative and Learning Machine that builds an ecosystem for creating, sharing, and verifying blockchain-based educational certificates. Digital certificates are registered on the Bitcoin blockchain, cryptographically signed, and tamper proof. All code is open-source and we invite feedback, contributions, and general discussion.
Read MoreThe Blockchain Border Bank project aims to rapidly prototype an integrated business, legal and technical approach to provide valid, usable identity and access to enduring economic independence for those who need it most.
Read MoreIn partnership with the Berklee College of Music, Harvard Berkman Center, and several industry partners in the Open Music Initiative, we are investigating the design of a blockchain-inspired open and interoperable digital rights management platform.
Read MoreIn this draft paper by graduate researchers Keith Duffy, Pasha Goudovitch, and Pavel Fedorov, the authors explore the potential for blockchain technology to improve digital identity in the United States.
Read MoreIn this paper, we propose MedRec: a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs, using blockchain technology.
Read MoreSolar-powered Bitcoin mining rigs that transform excess energy capacity from renewable energy into money.
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