Former Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Casey has been appointed senior advisor of MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative to help raise bitcoin awareness. The journalist, known for his work with Paul Vigna on The Age of Cryptocurrency and their regular WSJ column BitBeat – which covered developments in the crypto space – will take up his post at the beginning of […]
Digital currencies are still relatively unknown in Japan. This week, one of the country's pioneering VC firms aims to change that.
MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde has published new criticism of New York's proposed bitcoin regulation.
Newly appointed MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde discusses his university's role in "mainstreaming" digital currency.
Bicoin Core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan and Cory Fields have joined the MIT Media Lab’s new Digital Currency Initiative.
MIT Media Lab has announced the launch of Digital Currency Initiative, a three-pronged program aimed at increasing awareness of the technology.
The MIT Bitcoin Expo will be held on 7th and 8th March at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The anticipated giveaway of half a million dollars-worth of bitcoin to MIT students has begun.
Twenty bitcoin businesses have announced support for The Windhover Principles, which aim to reframe the debate around privacy and security.
MIT researchers have developed a trading system that can almost double a bitcoin investment in under two months.
A bookstore serving the MIT campus is now accepting bitcoin amid rising interest in bitcoin at the university.
The MIT BitComp has ended with six student-led projects earning more than $1,000 apiece.
MIT BitComp, a summer-long, app-creation competition at the prestigious university, has named its second-round winners.
The project has announced the first-round winners of its BitComp, aimed to encourage bitcoin innovation.