In this issue:

• Two new Bitcoin Core developers: Wladimir returns and Sebastian joins us

• New paper on privacy and the digital pound with the Bank of England released

• Neha Narula selected for Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency

• Student researcher Ishaana Misra wins Chaincode’s inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship

• And more...

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In this issue:

• Neha Narula's keynote speech at AFT '24 in Vienna

• BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens visits MIT

• DCI Advisor Simon Johnson receives Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

• And more...

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In this issue:

• New student thesis on mitigating undercutting attacks in Bitcoin

• 2024 MIT Bitcoin Expo roundup

• Final issue of the Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and the journal’s new publisher

• New papers and collaborations shared

• And more...

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DCI’s Madars Virza wins a test-of-time award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Madars Virza SM '14, PhD '17, a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), is the recipient of an IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test of Time Award for “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin,” a paper he co-authored in 2014.

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In this issue:

• Bitcoin Fridays

• New collaboration announced

• Engineering for privacy in central banks

• New faces at the DCI

• And more!

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In this issue:

• Our work on Bitcoin security

• New extension to PArSEC

• The DCI at Media Lab Members' Week

• And more!

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In this issue:

• New research on programmability and smart contracts

• Bitcoin Core updates

• Welcome students to the DCI

• And more!

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In this issue:

• How to support the DCI

• Updates to the Bitcoin Security Initiative

• The DCI on the Ethereum network

• A preview of the latest research on Project Hamilton

• And more!

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In this issue:

• The DCI at the MIT Bitcoin Expo, Consensus, Davos, and more.

• Project Hamilton at NSDI '23.

• Special thanks to DCI strategic advisor Shira Frank.

• ICYMI: Two virtual events on CBDC, now available on demand.

• And more!

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In this issue:

• Join the DCI for a new research release on financial inclusion

• Call for papers for the next issue of Cryptoeconomic Systems

• DCI paper accepted at NSDI

• And more!

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In this issue:

• Join the DCI at AFT'22

• CBDC and financial inclusion research release date announced

• Call for papers for the next issue of Cryptoeconomic Systems

• A fond farewell to Tadge Dryja

• And more!

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In this issue:

• Volume 2, Issue 1 of Cryptoeconomic Systems out now.

• OpenCBDC announces new collaborations and newly-opensourced projects.

• User research projects in the US and globally.

• The DCI team expands.

• And more!

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In this issue:

• The release of Project Hamilton, a collaboration between the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the DCI

• Taproot activation, and recognition for AJ Towns as one of the most influential developers of 2021

• The DCI is hiring a software engineer

• The next issue of Cyptoeconomic Systems

• MIT Bitcoin Club’s upcoming hackathon at Bitcoin EXPO (May 6-8)

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Today, the MIT Digital Currency Initiative is releasing the phase one outputs of Project Hamilton, our multi-year research collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Our release includes a technical paper, “A High Performance Payment Processing System Designed for Central Bank Digital Currencies,” and an open source codebase, OpenCBDC.

You can read more about the release in MIT News here.

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In this issue:

• Announcing the new Bitcoin Security Initiative Lead!

• New Issues of Cryptoeconomic Systems

• View the 2021 MIT Bitcoin Expo presentations by the DCI

• Blockchain Labs 2021 final reports

• Join DCI and Maiden for the release of our first user-research report: Dec 2nd

• Learn more about our open roles: Administrative Assistant and more

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