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MIT’s First Digital Currency Director Talks Taking Bitcoin Mainstream

Newly appointed MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde discusses his university's role in "mainstreaming" digital currency.

Markets  ·  1 May 2015
Bitcoin

Research Tracks Bitcoin Mining from Hobby to Big Business

New research from New York University uncovers how mining has changed from a solo activity to an industry dominated by powerful groups of miners.

Tech  ·  5 March 2015
Crime

Research: Over $11 Million Lost in Bitcoin Scams Since 2011

At least $11m has gone to fraudsters running bitcoin scams in the last four years, university researchers have found.

Policy & regulation  ·  29 January 2015
Hacking

Research: Hackers Could Install Backdoor in Bitcoin Cold Storage

A researcher in Berlin has described a way to compromise a core algorithm underpinning bitcoin so that transactions leak private-key data.

Policy & regulation  ·  16 January 2015
Research

Academic Research on Bitcoin Tripled in 2014

The amount of academic research centred on bitcoin has risen sharply in the last year, financial analyst and author Brett Scott has found.

Markets  ·  8 January 2015
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Pools Attack When Threatened, Study Finds

Researchers have investigated the conditions under which bitcoin mining pools will attack one another or co-exist peacefully.

Tech  ·  2 January 2015
Markets

New Research Links Bitcoin Price Spikes to Media Hype

New research that analyses bitcoin’s price fluctuations and usage patterns through empirical analysis has delivered some interesting results.

Markets  ·  19 November 2014
Privacy

New Tool TorBan Helps Monitor Bitcoin-Over-Tor Attacks

A privacy researcher has created a monitoring tool called TorBan to check for attacks on bitcoin users over Tor.

Markets  ·  11 November 2014
Japan

Japanese Scholars Draft Proposal for a Better Bitcoin

Japanese researchers have published a set of monetary policy proposals they say could stabilise bitcoin's volatility.

Tech  ·  7 November 2014
Crime

Google Search Study Hints at ‘Shady Truth’ of Bitcoin Users

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users.

Tech  ·  5 November 2014
Bitcoin

Bitcoin-Over-Tor Anonymity ‘Can Be Busted for $2,500 a Month’

Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have found that using bitcoin over Tor leaves users open to privacy-busting attacks.

Policy & regulation  ·  29 October 2014
Exchanges

MIT Bitcoin Trading Simulation Yields Profit of 89% in 50 Days

MIT researchers have developed a trading system that can almost double a bitcoin investment in under two months.

Tech  ·  14 October 2014