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Neha Narula

Director, Digital Currency Initiative; Research Scientist
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The Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab will collaborate with Deutsche Bundesbank on central bank digital currency (CBDC) research

The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.
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Fall Meeting 2022: Future of Cryptocurrency
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Davos 2023: The MIT Media Lab's contributions to shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future

Representatives from the Media Lab participated in discussions on the Earth Data Revolution, Space Economy, Digital Currencies, and more.
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Crypto Decoded

From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
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The MIT researcher who helps senators understand digital currencies

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.
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MIT experts test technical research for a hypothetical central bank digital currency

Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
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Neha Narula among 2021 IMSA Board of Trustees Alumni Awards

DCI director Neha Narula has been honored with the Alumni Trailblazers Award this year.
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Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES)

DCI has launched Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and conference series focused on blockchain tech.
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Why central banks want to get into digital currencies

CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
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Does the US need a national digital currency?

Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.
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China’s digital yuan could help countries like North Korea evade US sanctions, experts say

Neha Narula joined experts discussing the privacy and security concerns around China's digital currency.
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Twitter and Facebook want to shift power to users. Or do they?

DCI head Neha Narula offers perspective on the draw of decentralization.
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An exercise at Kennedy School explores the dangers if large sums could be secretly sent to hostile nations

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
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In wargaming exercise, a digital yuan neuters US sanctions and North Korea buys nukes

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler participated in a simulated “digital currency war” at Harvard’s Belfer Center.
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MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative – A research-driven approach to blockchain

The DCI’s position between academia and industry, their policy on conflicts of interest, and their most fascinating research topics.
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The impact of blockchain technology on finance: a catalyst for change

The 21st Geneva Report on the World Economy reviews the basics of blockchain technology, and its challenges, costs, and benefits.
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Reducing the risk of catastrophic cryptocurrency bugs

Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.
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Another perspective on cryptocurrencies and regulation

We need to bump up a level and revisit how to achieve our original public policy goals in a new paradigm
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The how and why of buying bitcoin

How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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The media today: The narrowing of the Internet

With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…
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Decentralized social networks sound great. Too bad they’ll never work.

There’s no "silver-bullet technical solution" to the challenges in decentralizing the web.
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The future of money

Neha Narula's TED Talk
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Nurturing the creation of music through the blockchain

Blockchain technology could help to revolutionize how artists get paid.
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Blockchain and next gen cars

Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars.
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The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture.
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Music Industry and Technology Leaders Join Leading Academic Institutions to Launch Open Music Initiative to Resolve Longstanding Media Rights Issues
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Neha Narula: The future of money
via TED · Sept. 12, 2016
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The future of money

MIT DCI's research director Neha Narula discusses the future of money at TED@BCG Paris
Oct. 6, 2016