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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

The MIT researcher who helps senators understand digital currencies

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative director serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks around the world.

Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

Will the dollar go digital?

Some countries, including the US, are exploring a new type of money that can be spent only electronically.

Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

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Bitcoin vending machine

Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI tea...

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Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES)

DCI has launched Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal and conference series focused on blockchain tech.

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

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Viral Vote

Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addr...

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Digital Academic Credentials

Building on earlier work done at the Media Lab, MIT has formed the Digital Credentials Consortium an international network of universitie...

Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

An exercise at Kennedy School explores the dangers if large sums could be secretly sent to hostile nations

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.

Another perspective on cryptocurrencies and regulation

We need to bump up a level and revisit how to achieve our original public policy goals in a new paradigm

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Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving...

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Does the US need a national digital currency?

Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.

Why it’s time to start talking about blockchain ethics

Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.

Perspectives on Libra

Essays and testimonies on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency

Humanized Cryptoassets

This project delivers a series of Github-signal based metrics that would be useful to both the layman and investor, helping look beyond t...

The big ICO swindle

Many cryptocurrency speculators are banking on the theory that someone dumber than them will buy their tokens for more than they paid.

MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative – A research-driven approach to blockchain

The DCI’s position between academia and industry, their policy on conflicts of interest, and their most fascinating research topics.

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies

My experience disclosing a critical Bitcoin Cash vulnerability

Reducing the risk of catastrophic cryptocurrency bugs

Projects should take steps to ensure that responsible disclosure is the easiest, safest and most lucrative response.

Building smart contracts with Bitcoin

Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) are a new type of smart contract which limit the information gained and influence of oracles, and can r...

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In blockchain we trust

To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath.

Gary Gensler: Remarks at "Off" The Chain Summit

Blockchain technology and the crypto ecosystem it has birthed must come fully within public policy frameworks to reach its full potential.

The problem with ICOs is that they’re called ICOs

Robleh Ali, former crypto specialist for the Bank of England, on why initial coin offerings are dangerous and how to make them more useful.

A Former Top Wall Street Regulator Turns to the Blockchain

Gary Gensler has joined the MIT Digital Currency Initiative

Tokens for climate change? How we can rise above ICO mania

A surefire way to be accused of over-hyping blockchain technology is to make some sweeping, breathless statement like, "It can solve climat…

Who will build the health-care blockchain?

Decentralized databases promise to revolutionize medical records, but not until the healthcare industry buys into the idea and gets to work.

The future of money

Neha Narula's TED Talk

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Invisible Ink

Invisible Ink is a certified mail application that demonstrates the utility of the blockchain for maintaining a public ledger of transact...

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