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.

Developer, Digital Currency

Developer, Digital Currency

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

Former Director's Fellow

Former Manager of Philanthropic Relations

Former Research Affiliate

Former Research Assistant

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

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…

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,…

Research Assistant

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

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

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Former Research Assistant

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

Jaylen Brown in conversation with David Sun Kong and Kade Crockford

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability

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

Colleen Macklin and John Sharp in conversation with 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…

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.

Jamila Raqib in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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

Research Assistant

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

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.

Former Visiting Student

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

Research Assistant

MLTalks with Jan Fuller and Joi Ito

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

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.

Former Research Specialist

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Former Research Assistant

Former Administrative Assistant

Former Research Assistant

Former Visiting Scientist, TCL

Former Research Assistant