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MLTalks: Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan

Bitcoin Developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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MLTalks: Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan

Bitcoin Developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields, and Wladimir van der Laan in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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Cory Fields

Developer, Digital Currency

Group

Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

The internet enabled people to easily call each other without a phone company, send a document without a mail carrier, or publish an articl…

Person

Gavin Zhao

Former Director's Fellow

Person

Kelly Gavin

Former Manager of Philanthropic Relations

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Cory Doctorow

Former Research Affiliate

Person

Cory D. Kidd

Former Research Assistant

Project

Bitcoin Core Development

The DCI houses key Bitcoin Core developers and maintainers, who conduct Bitcoin Core code review and project maintenance, maintain a long-t…

Project

Bitcoin Core's migration to the CMake buildsystem

The DCI’s Bitcoin Core developers have been reviewing and guiding Hennadii Stepanov's work to migrate to the CMake buildsystem, which was m…

Person

Gabe Fields

Person

Wan-Hsun Wu

Article

Obituary: Gavin Zhao

Gavin Zhao passed away on August 9, 2019 at 1:34PM.

Series

MLTalks

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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A Model and Estimation of Bitcoin Transaction Fees

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…

Publication

Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet

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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Cory Doctorow Talk

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWe live in a world made of networked computers, but we regulate them like they were toys, phones,…

Tuesday
February 26, 2013
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Don Derek Haddad

Research Affiliate

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MLTalks Series

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Our response to "A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin"

On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. However, we at the Media Lab have issues with the story

Project

Bitcoin Security Initiative

Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…

Publication

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies by Cory Fields. May7th 2018

Publication

Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption

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

Article

The how and why of buying bitcoin

How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

Project

Measuring, Auditing, and Improving Bitcoin-Core’s Kitchen Sink Random Number Generator

Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…

Video

MLTalks: A bit about computer crime and digital evidence with Jan Fuller

Jan Fuller is an expert in digital forensics: investigating and analyzing evidence from computers and digital devices.

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MassDOT Developers Conference

DescriptionVia the Massachusetts Department of Transportation:The Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) will be hosting a Developers Con…

Saturday
November 14, 2009
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Use BlockSci to analyze Bitcoin (and other blockchains)

The Bitcoin blockchain—currently 160 GB and growing—contains a massive amount of data that can give us insights into the Bitcoin ecosystem,…

Event

MLTalks: Building a toolbox for nonviolent resistance

Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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MLTalks: Hoops, Tech, and Justice

Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford

Friday
October 12, 2018
5:00pm — 6:00pm ET
Project

Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…

Person

Juliet Wanyiri

Former Research Assistant

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MLTalks: Andrew "bunnie" Huang

Andrew "bunnie" Huang in conversation with Nadya Peek and Joi Ito.

Tuesday
November 24, 2015
Project

Bitcoin vending machine

Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team …

Event

MLTalks—Perspectives on creativity and failure

Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with Joi Ito

Tuesday
May 7, 2019
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Article

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability

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Nina Wang

Project

Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption

In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network vu…

Event

MLTalks: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Tuesday
March 3, 2015
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Wanli Cheng

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MLTalks: Theo Jansen, Neri Oxman, and Trevor Smith

Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.

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MLTalks: Joi Ito and the Presidential Innovation Fellows

Presidential Innovation Fellows in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Wednesday
October 12, 2016
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MLTalks: Rob Pardo

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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MLTalks: Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow

Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Friday
February 7, 2014
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MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley

IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Tuesday
July 23, 2013
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MLTalks: Greg Brandeau and Josh Sarantitis

Former Disney CTO Greg Brandeau and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Monday
April 29, 2013
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MLTalks: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy

Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.

Wednesday
February 15, 2017
3:00pm — 4:30pm ET
Video

MLTalks: Building a toolbox for nonviolent resistance

Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Jan. 25, 2017
Project

Building smart contracts with Bitcoin

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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MLTalks: Joi Ito and the Director's Fellows

Director of the Media Lab Joi Ito in conversation with the Director's Fellows.

Friday
January 23, 2015
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MLTalks: A bit about computer crime and digital evidence with Jan Fuller

MLTalks with Jan Fuller and Joi Ito

Monday
October 15, 2018
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Article

Alumnus Cory Kidd Talks Robots and Weight Loss

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MLTalks: Explaining the MacArthur Fellowship

Join Joi Ito and The MacArthur Foundation’s Cecilia Conrad for MLTalks: Demystifying the MacArthur Fellowship.

Tuesday
May 29, 2018
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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MLTalks: Neal Stephenson

Award-winning author and designer Neal Stephenson, in conversation with Joe Paradiso and Ariel Ekblaw.

Friday
March 9, 2018
2:00pm — 3:30pm ET
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Jack Wanderman

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Zeguan Wang

Former Research Assistant

Person

Suzanne Wang

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MLTalks: Marco Kaltofen

Marco Kaltofen in conversation with the Media Lab's Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman.

Monday
September 21, 2015
Person

Shuo Wang

Former Research Assistant

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Yanan Wang

Former Visiting Student

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MLTalks: Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle in conversation with Lifelong Kindergarten Director Mitchel Resnick.

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Guanyun Wang

Former Research Assistant

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Zhangyuan Wang

Former Research Assistant

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Purui Wang

Graduate Student

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MLTalks: Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica.

Friday
February 16, 2018
3:30pm — 5:00pm ET
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MLTalks: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Cameron Kerry

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin in conversation with Cameron Kerry.

Friday
February 27, 2015
Person

Guolong Wang

Former Research Assistant