DCI Newsletter Issue #3 - Q2 2019

Hello,

It has been a crazy few months for cryptocurrency -- 60 Minutes did a segment on Bitcoin, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and President all commented on cryptocurrency in a week, and Facebook is adopting the language of decentralized cryptocurrencies to launch a mobile payments system. Some of our government officials have done an admirable job getting educated on these topics and asking probing questions of experts, including DCI advisor Gary Gensler at the House Financial Services Committee.

We at the DCI are honored to continue to be asked for our neutral analysis and explanations in these venues. Part of our work is making cryptocurrency more legible to multiple disciplines -- join us October 5-6 in Cambridge, MA for a kickoff event on our new conference and journal to steward the field of #CryptoResearch.

We are continuing to address the fundamental challenges to keep cryptocurrency tech from being ready for billions -- check out Tadge’s work on making it easier to run a validating node, Madars’s work on a new zeroknowledge proof primitive, and more below.

Thanks, Neha