A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that blockchains are not as secure as they are purported to be in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on June 6. Stuart ...

The W3C is presenting the workshop W3C Blockchains and the Web, hosted by the MIT Media Lab. Exploring identity, value exchange, asset recording, consortium frameworks, and reputations systems all ...

MIT’s Enigma project would let you sell the rights to use your data in aggregate–without having to grant access to your raw information. A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology project could soon ...

SEC chairman Gary Gensler comes from MIT, where he taught a cryptocurrency course. Now, his agency might be in charge of regulating the volatile and often murky crypto market. Gensler is a rarity in ...

As media outlets waited to announce a winner until the Saturday following the U.S. presidential election, calls for how blockchains would have made this process easier emerged, most prominently ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun offering some students the option to receive digital diplomas through an app, in addition to a traditional paper degree. Based on Bitcoin's ...

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BLOCK(CHAIN) AND TACKLE: Still think blockchain is a mythical beast? The technology just got a big endorsement from MIT’s Media Lab, which introduced a project for issuing official credentials on ...

Industry collaboratives, consortiums and vendors have been working to address the problem with scaling blockchain-based cryptocurrency transactions, both in terms of size and efficiency. If successful ...

Transcripts, diplomas, resumes — simple documents with enormously important economic consequences for their holders. The right classes or GPA on a transcript can radically change the career prospects ...