To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us ...

Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a leader of THORChain, a blockchain that is not supposed to have any leaders—and is reeling from a series of expensive controversies.

A distributed ledger written in Go based loosely on the Satoshi Nakamotot bitcoin whitepaper. Credit also given to Gary Gensler's course on MIT openCourseWare: Blockchain and Money. Zero dependencies ...

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

US regulators gave the green light for a new service that will take a critical step toward moving some stocks, bonds and Treasuries onto blockchain technology. The Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Investors can already use cryptocurrency to buy commercial real estate assets. It's blockchain, where crypto lives, that commercial real estate is finally adopting. Tony Giordano, founder of the ...

Two MIT-trained brothers accused of a $25 million crypto heist go on trial Tuesday. A federal jury in Manhattan must decide if the 12-second transaction was fraud or fair play. The Peraire-Bueno ...

A “first-of-its-kind” alleged crypto heist is going to trial this week. In May 2024, the Justice Department accused two brothers, Anton Peraire-Bueno, 25, and James Pepaire-Bueno, 29, of stealing $25 ...

FundsChain, a blockchain-based platform, enables the World Bank to improve traceability, accountability, and streamline operations when tracking the use of funds. Key features include tamper-proof ...

Consensus mechanisms underpin the effective operation of blockchains by ensuring a single consistent and honest ledger. The design and implementation of these consensus mechanisms can improve or ...