Coin Rivet's 'Single Lightning Network node routes record number of Satoshis in a day'
A Lightning Network node hosted by Satoshi Labs successfully routed one Bitcoin worth of Lightning transactions in a 24-hour period
Coindesk's 'This Scaling Tech Could Let You Sync Bitcoin Straight From Your Phone' using UTreeXO created by Tadge Dryja
“Maybe we don’t have to store everything ourselves.”
That’s Tadge Dryja, cryptocurrency research scientist at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, explaining the concept behind his bitcoin scaling solution, “utreexo.”
Coindesk's 'Bitcoin at 10[years old]': From Fearing Bitcoin To Fixing Its Worst Problem: Tadge Dryja
A celebration of 10 years of Bitcoin features DCI's Tadge Dryja story:
““I thought I would go to jail.”
That’s why Tadge Dryja, one of two principal researchers who would go on to envision lightning – what has become arguably the most important innovation in the quest to bring bitcoin to the masses – kept his passion for the technology to himself when he first heard about it in 2011.”
WGBH News: More local ATMs Will Soon Dispense 'Cryptocurrencies' - Arun Rath Interviews DCI's Director Neha Narula and Others
DCI’s Director Neha Narula was interviewed by WGBH on the topic of how making cryptocurrency mainstream is beneficial to the general public, by using more tangible methods.
DCI Director interviewed for The Wall Street Journal: "Winklevosses’ Cryptocurrency Exchange Says the ‘Revolution Needs Rules’" By Nat Ives
DCI’s Director Neha Narula commented on ‘Gemini Trust ad campaign calling for new regulations’ in an article for The Wall Street Journal
Michael Casey's "Vertcoin’s Struggle Is Real: Why the Latest Crypto 51% Attack Matters"
You may not have heard of Vertcoin, a crypto project designed to curtail concentration in mining power in the interests of broad-based participation. But if you care about security, decentralization and open access for cryptocurrencies, then the questions raised by a recent breach of its blockchain will matter to you.
Wired 25: Neha Narula and Alexis Ohanian say it's Early Days yet for Cryptocurrency
By KLINT FINLEY 10.15.18 07:36 PM Wired.com
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Today at the WIRED25 Summit, Neha Narula and Alexis Ohanian talked about some of the ways blockchain, the decentralized ledger technology at the heart of bitcoin and other "cryptocurrencies," could press forward through the current slump and actually become useful.
WIRED25: The Future of Cryptocurrency - MIT Media Lab's Neha Narula and Reddit's Alexis Ohanian On What's Ahead
MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula spoke with WIRED’s Brian Barrett as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.
Does Your Supply Chain Need a Blockchain?
Many new digital technologies at various stages of development hold promise for manufacturers and the supply chain. The challenge for management teams is knowing which technologies to invest in—and when. Case in point: blockchain technology. Once seemingly at the far end of the time horizon, blockchains are suddenly poised for rapid growth. Why? Because they offer a solution to the growing problem of how to manage increasingly complicated networks of manufacturers and suppliers at a time when transparency, speed, and agility are critical.
The problem with ICOs is that they’re called ICOs
The MIT Technology review interviews Robleh Ali, former manager of digital currency for the Bank of England, now research scientist at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, on why initial coin offerings are dangerous and how to make them more useful.
A Former Top Wall Street Regulator Turns to the Blockchain
From the New York Times, Nathaniel Popper profiles DCI Senior Advisor Gary Gensler, former chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission ahead of his statements on the regulation of cryptocurrencies to be made at the Business of Blockchain Conference.
This is how Bitcoin works
Neha Narula, director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, helps PBS NewsHour understand how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies work. Watch the video below or read the transcript interview with Neha, "This is how Bitcoin works."
In blockchain we trust
The dot-com bubble of the 1990s is popularly viewed as a period of crazy excess that ended with hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth being destroyed. What’s less often discussed is how all the cheap capital of the boom years helped fund the infrastructure upon which the most important internet innovations would be built after the bubble burst.
WIRED features the Lightning Network, DCI research scientist Tadge Dryja
Tadge Dryja, research scientist at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, is featured in this recent WIRED article by Sandra Upson, "The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper." Tadge continues to lead the development of Lightning, now with us at the MIT Media Lab.
The Potential for Blockchain to Transform Electronic Health Records
Imagine that every EHR sent updates about medications, problems, and allergy lists to an open-source, community-wide trusted ledger, so additions and subtractions to the medical record were well understood and auditable across organizations.
The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media
We might best understand Bitcoin as a microcosm of how a new, decentralized, and automated financial system could work.