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Universities have been helping with blockchain-related research for quite some time and, now, some world-class universities have added the technology to their curriculum.
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MIT News
MIT, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a university and research center located in Cambridge, MA, USA. MIT is one of the most prestigious technological educational establishments both in the USA and in the world. MIT is also popular for its innovative activity directed on robotics and artificial intelligence. Also, the university has its own MIT cybersecurity course. In terms of MIT and cryptocurrency, blockchain technology at MIT is being considering as a system of awarding digital diplomas in addition to traditional ones and, besides that, the university has its own standards and certificates for blockchain. Also, the university is origin place of MIT Bitcoin Expo, which is a big conference concerned with using innovative technologies in the financial sphere.
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The bank will work alongside the MIT Media Labs’ Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) team to examine how “advanced technologies could affect the potential design of a CBDC.”
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Blockchain-based architecture was deemed “not a good match” as researchers weighed several technological designs.
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The researchers published results from “Project Hamilton,” which was first announced in 2020 to explore the use of existing and new tech to build and test a hypothetical CBDC platform.
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Many students who participated in the 2014 MIT Bitcoin Project lament quickly selling their free BTC for textbooks, sushi and beer.
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Crypto industry captains are throwing their support behind a long-term project from MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative to enhance Bitcoin’s security.
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The next leader of the U.S. securities regulator seems to be sympathetic to the mission of decentralization.
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In the U.S., all eyes are on Joe Biden's planned appointees, while Europe is seeing progress under a new AML regime.
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The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring digital currencies to modernize the U.S. payments sector.
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Can MIT help the U.S. catch up to China in the CBDC race?
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The Oasis Foundation has announced a new University Program, bringing together blockchain societies from leading universities like Oxford and Cornell.
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Fed Governor Lael Brainard shares updates about the U.S. digital currency initiative and why it is crucial to understand CBDCs.
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James Lovejoy, a research assistant for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, crypto and blockchain group the Digital Currency Initiative, explained blockchain attacks might not always be obvious.
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Mainstream crypto trading interest has been on the rise since fall 2019.
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An MIT startup focused on providing institutions better access to crypto trading technologies, recently secured millions in funding.
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