An MIT professor of engineering claimed that blockchain can allow for a borderless economy if implemented in a decentralized, secure and scalable way. When asked about scalability in particular, ...

MIT Technology Review has published an article today, Jan. 2, arguing that 2019 is the year in which blockchain will become mundane. The Review is a magazine that is independent but wholly-owned by ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 5, 2021 — Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a ...

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 ...

Blockchain technology, for all of its cryptographic cleverness, has often been mocked as the solution that's looking for a problem. See Also: When Identity Protection Fails: Rethinking Resilience for ...

On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more ...

Abel Sanchez is one of two instructors teaching the Applied Blockchain course at MIT, one of many universities with courses on the distributed ledger tech. While about half the students can code, ...

At first glance, the word “ethics” may seem out of place next to “blockchain.” After all, the world of cryptocurrency may be most famous for its many frauds and scams. But according to a small ...

Two brothers alleged stole $25 million from the Ethereum blockchain after exploiting a flaw in a popular cryptocurrency software. Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images Just when you've ...

Despite the economic thrust following the global financial crisis, many are still suspicious of big entity. The mechanization of corporate templates, the fustiness of colossal government and the ...