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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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Learn more about what our team members do for Bitcoin Core development.On January 8 2009, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto released v0.1 o…
Creating a library with a stable API/ABI for consensus-safe blockchain analysis and modification. Building on years of rearchitecting the B…
The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…
This project aims to remove the handling of peer connection and message handling from the bitcoind binary. Instead, a new binary is introdu…
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…
MIT launches DCI Global to study real-world Bitcoin & stablecoin use, tackling financial inclusion through research & education.
Lin, Alicia, et al. "Evaluating usage of the Whirlpool Bitcoin privacy protocol." July 2025, https://www.dci.mit.edu/posts/coinjoin-timing-questions
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
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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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Narula, Neha, "A new research network for Bitcoin and digital currency," August 2025, https://www.dci.mit.edu/posts/new-research-network
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
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
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
Jan Fuller is an expert in digital forensics: investigating and analyzing evidence from computers and digital devices.
Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
DescriptionVia the Massachusetts Department of Transportation:The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) will be hosting a Developers Con…
Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
The Bitcoin blockchain—currently 160 GB and growing—contains a massive amount of data that can give us insights into the Bitcoin ecosystem,…
Former Research Assistant
Andrew "bunnie" Huang in conversation with Nadya Peek and Joi Ito.
Wai Lok Wan, Ayah Mahmoud, Sergio Mutis, Avantika Velho, Annie Xing, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Electrospun Fields: 3D Nano-Fiber Material Computation as Design Method. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 9, 3, Article 43 (August 2026), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3816080
Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with 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 &n…
Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team …
My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability
David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests 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.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo 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.
Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.
MLTalks with Jan Fuller and Joi Ito
Join Joi Ito and The MacArthur Foundation’s Cecilia Conrad for MLTalks: Demystifying the MacArthur Fellowship.
Award-winning author and designer Neal Stephenson, in conversation with Joe Paradiso and Ariel Ekblaw.
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Marco Kaltofen in conversation with the Media Lab's Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman.
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