Algorand, the brainchild of MIT professor Silvio Micali, has taken its testnet to a wider audience before its mainnet move in June
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Algorand Expands Testnet Platform to Public Ahead of June Mainnet Release
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Digital Currency Donors and Crypto-Backed Endowments Fuel Higher Learning
Digital asset holders and organizations have been donating funds to a number of well-known universities. These days a slew of popular colleges like Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Puget Sound, and Princeton all accept digital currency donations or have high-net-worth crypto backers funding these schools. On the flip side of higher education, many of the world’s prestigious […]
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How MIT Joined Ethereum in the Race for the First PoS Blockchain
Backed by $162 million in investments and MIT, Algorand may become the first scalable blockchain working on the proof-of-stake protocol
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Tipping the Scales: Could Unit-e Finally Break Blockchain’s Scalability Impasse?
“A lack of scalability is holding back cryptocurrency adoption. The Unit-e developers are turning this research into real scalable performance” — DTR’s new scalability project ventures into uncharted territory
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Report: MIT Researchers Design Cryptocurrency 99% Less Data-Intensive Than Bitcoin
MIT researchers have reportedly developed a cryptocurrency that needs transaction-verifying nodes to store 99 percent less data as compared to Bitcoin
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MIT Professor: Blockchain Can Allow for More Inclusive, Borderless Economy
Once a blockchain system successfully combines security, decentralization and scalability, a borderless economy can be achieved, says MIT professor
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Lightning Network Co-Creator Is Designing a Scaling Solution Called Utreexo
A blockchain researcher has been working on a scaling effort for the unspent transaction output set found in the Bitcoin protocol. According to Tadge Dryja’s recently published description of research, the software engineer is working on a dynamic accumulator called Utreexo. The project could theoretically allow network participants to verify the state of the chain’s […]
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Nevada Saw an Influx of Blockchain Recorded Marriages in 2018
According to public records obtained from Washoe County, home to one of the marriage epicenters of the world in Reno, Nevada, the region saw over 950 blockchain recorded marriages in 2018. Moreover, about 250 miles away in Elko, Nevada, county officials are recording birth certificates using blockchain technology. Also read: Connecticut Software Engineering School Receives $10,000 […]
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Connecticut Software Engineering School Receives $10,000 BTC Donation
During the first week of 2019, Holberton School in New Haven, whose two-year higher education program aims to “drive the digital transformation revolution,” received a large cryptocurrency donation. On Monday it was announced that the cofounder of software suite the Scroll Network, Nathan Pitruzzello, donated $10,000 worth of digital currency to the Connecticut school that’s known […]
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Omni Layer Fork Called ‘Wormhole’ Debuts for Bitcoin Cash
According to a report on the social media platform Yours.org, software developers associated with the mining giant Bitmain plan on launching a smart contract protocol for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The project called ‘Wormhole’ will utilize the increased data-carrier-size and OP_Return transactions alongside a protocol based on the Omni Layer project. Also read: Group or […]
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