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Bitcoin Developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Bitcoin Developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
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The internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an articl…
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The DCI houses key Bitcoin Core developers and maintainers, who conduct Bitcoin Core code review and project maintenance, maintain a long-t…
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The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…
Kajale, S.N., Nguyen, T., Chao, C.A. et al. Current-induced switching of a van der Waals ferromagnet at room temperature. Nat Commun 15, 1485 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45586-4
Shivam N. Kajale et al., Field-free deterministic switching of all–van der Waals spin-orbit torque system above room temperature. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk8669(2024). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adk8669
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Gavin Zhao passed away on August 9, 2019 at 1:34PM.
The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, whic…
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Bitcoin miners compete to earn a block reward by applying hashrate to solve a puzzle set by the code. Equilibrium hashrate is a function of…
Ito, J. (2015, January 23). Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet. Joi Ito's Web [Blog post]. https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/01/23/why-bitcoin-is-.html
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWe live in a world made of networked computers, but we regulate them like they were toys, phones,…
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Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
Aronoff, Daniel. (2024). Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption. arXiv:2405.15089 [cs.CR]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15089
How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies by Cory Fields. May7th 2018
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
The Bitcoin blockchain—currently 160 GB and growing—contains a massive amount of data that can give us insights into the Bitcoin ecosystem,…
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team …
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Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford
Andrew "bunnie" Huang in conversation with Nadya Peek and Joi Ito.
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network vu…
On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. However, we at the Media Lab have issues with the story
Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with Joi Ito
My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Jan Fuller is an expert in digital forensics: investigating and analyzing evidence from computers and digital devices.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.
Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a new type of smart contract which limit the information gained and influence of oracles, and can run…
Presidential Innovation Fellows in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Former Disney CTO Greg Brandeau and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
MLTalks with Jan Fuller and Joi Ito
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Award-winning author and designer Neal Stephenson, in conversation with Joe Paradiso and Ariel Ekblaw.
Marco Kaltofen in conversation with the Media Lab's Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman.
Sherry Turkle in conversation with Lifelong Kindergarten Director Mitchel Resnick.
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica.
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin in conversation with Cameron Kerry.
Score Instruments: Interaction Design for Musical Wonderers