Back to the Future: the Decentralized Web
The Web has steadily evolved into an ecosystem of large, corporate-controlled mega-platforms which intermediate speech online. In this report we explore two important ways structurally decentralized systems could help address this.
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.
Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin
Catena enables applications to start their own "micro-blockchain" within a blockchain like Bitcoin. A paper by Alin Tomescu and Srini Devadas, MIT CSAIL
Blockcerts and the Digital Certificates Project
An incubation project by the Media Lab Learning Initiative and Learning Machine that builds an ecosystem for creating, sharing, and verifying blockchain-based educational certificates. Digital certificates are registered on the Bitcoin blockchain, cryptographically signed, and tamper proof. All code is open-source and we invite feedback, contributions, and general discussion.
The Blockchain Border Bank
The Blockchain Border Bank project aims to rapidly prototype an integrated business, legal and technical approach to provide valid, usable identity and access to enduring economic independence for those who need it most.
Blockchain rights management with the Open Music Initiative
In partnership with the Berklee College of Music, Harvard Berkman Center, and several industry partners in the Open Music Initiative, we are investigating the design of a blockchain-inspired open and interoperable digital rights management platform.
The Application of Digital Identity in the United States
In this draft paper by graduate researchers Keith Duffy, Pasha Goudovitch, and Pavel Fedorov, the authors explore the potential for blockchain technology to improve digital identity in the United States.
MedRec: A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare
In this paper, we propose MedRec: a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs, using blockchain technology.
Solar Bitcoin mining
Solar-powered Bitcoin mining rigs that transform excess energy capacity from renewable energy into money.