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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…
The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…
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…
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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On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. However, we at the Media Lab have issues with the story
Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies by Cory Fields. May7th 2018
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
Jan Fuller is an expert in digital forensics: investigating and analyzing evidence from computers and digital devices.
How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
DescriptionVia the Massachusetts Department of Transportation:The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) will be hosting a Developers Con…
The Bitcoin blockchain—currently 160 GB and growing—contains a massive amount of data that can give us insights into the Bitcoin ecosystem,…
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Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford
Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team …
Andrew "bunnie" Huang in conversation with Nadya Peek and Joi Ito.
Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with Joi Ito
My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network vu…
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
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.
Presidential Innovation Fellows in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
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Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.
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.
Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a new type of smart contract which limit the information gained and influence of oracles, and can run…
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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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Join Joi Ito and The MacArthur Foundation’s Cecilia Conrad for MLTalks: Demystifying the MacArthur Fellowship.
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
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.