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This project aims to remove the handling of peer connection and message handling from the bitcoind binary. Instead, a new binary is introdu…
Creating a library with a stable API/ABI for consensus-safe blockchain analysis and modification. Building on years of rearchitecting the B…
We’re creating a new global research network to understand how cryptocurrencies and digital currencies help people financially flourish—and…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Currency Initiative (MIT DCI) and Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan collaborated on the…
Learn more about what our team members do for Bitcoin Core development.On January 8 2009, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto released v0.1 o…
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Parallelized Architecture for Scalably Executing smart Contracts (PArSEC)AuthorsJames Lovejoy, Federal Reserve Bank of BostonAnders Brownwo…
Announcement dated March, 17, 2022The Bank of Canada is collaborating on a CBDC research project with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. …
Abstract: We propose, implement, and evaluate two extensions to OpenCBDC, an open-source transaction processor designed for central ba…
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevale…
Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…
The US Treasuries repo market is the largest financial market in the world. Trade volume is constrained by the interaction of accounting ru…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
There are some security risks in PArSEC as is – namely, embedding a general-purpose language exposes the system and Lua smart contracts hav…
This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
As the digitalization of the economy accelerates, protecting privacy is essential. In this regard, MIT Digital Currency Initiative has laun…
Bitcoin miners compete to earn a block reward by applying hashrate to solve a puzzle set by the code. Equilibrium hashrate is a function of…
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network &n…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…