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The Ministry for Education and Employment of the Republic of Malta announced in a press release CoinReport received the signing of an agreement with Learning Machine Technologies to launch the first nation-state pilot of blockchain credentials. Under the contract, Maltese workers...

Last month the solar energy project ElectriCChain announced the participation of several prominent organizations including MIT and NASA. The project aims to collect, verify and publish data from the 7 million solar energy generators around the world. I had the pleasure to speak...

Open Solar Energy generation data project ElectriCChain has gathered participants from prominent organizations including MIT, IOTA, NASA and Parc, according to an email sent to CoinReport. The project launched 4 weeks ago and aims to verify and publish data from the 7 million...

SiliconANGLE reports that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched the Bitcoin Development Fund to cover salaries, travel, and work costs of the three leading developers of the Bitcoin Core project: Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan. The fund has...

Brian Forde, director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, announced this week that Michael Casey will join the Media Lab as Senior Advisor to the Digital Currency Initiative on September 1st. Casey has spent nearly 25 years...

A researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems recently created a machine-learning algorithm that can predict the price of Bitcoin, allowing his research...

Coinbase, a popular online digital wallet, has started a new initiative to give $10 worth of free Bitcoin to college students who create a new Coinbase account. A .edu email address must be used to prove that the one applying for an account is really a college student. This...

MIT has been set on creating a bitcoin relying community, as more events and programs make their way in the eyes of the public. The MIT Sloan School of Management hopes to have a round table and panel on the Challenges of Innovation in Economy. The topic will focus on Can...

Bitcoin enthusiasts Jeremy L. Rubin and Daniel B. Elitzer have raised over $500,000 from 25 different donors, and plan on giving each MIT undergraduate student $100 worth of bitcoin. This movement was made in order to spark innovation within the MIT community. Bitcoin for MIT...

The president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, L. Rafael Reif, is putting his foot down against threats made to his students by New Jersey officials. Reif and the MIT community won’t stand for the shutdown or the legal action taken against t...