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Madars Virza wins Test of Time Award at 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

This award recognizes previously published papers that have had a lasting impact on research and practice in computer security and privacy.

June 11, 2024
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #digital currency
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people

#robotics #design #social networks +85 more
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

#artificial intelligence #banking and finance #civic technology +21 more
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Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Claire Bao · Thaddeus Dryja +1 more
#security #blockchain #digital currency
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Measuring, Auditing, and Improving Bitcoin-Core’s Kitchen Sink Random Number Generator

Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Neha Narula
#cryptocurrency #security #blockchain +1 more
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Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake Double-Spend Attack Comparison

This project compares the security of Proof of Work (e.g., Bitcoin) versus Proof of Stake (e.g., Ethereum 2) protocols along several dimens…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Neha Narula · Reuben Youngblom +1 more
#cryptocurrency #security #digital currency
Project Research

Treasury and Programmability

Programmability is one of the most touted benefits of tokenized systems, and there are billions of dollars locked up in smart contracts in …

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Robert Bench · Chris Calabia +1 more
#design #banking and finance #cryptocurrency +2 more
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Privacy-Preserving Audits for OpenCBDC

Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Chris Calabia · Madars Virza +2 more
#banking and finance #privacy #digital currency
Project Research

Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments in a Centralized Digital Currency

This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Ayesha Ali · Madars Virza
#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #privacy +2 more
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The Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab will collaborate with Deutsche Bundesbank on central bank digital currency (CBDC) research

The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.

April 16, 2024
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
#privacy #digital currency

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