A speech with the manager of DCI astatine MIT, Neha Narula, connected the relation academia plays successful the Bitcoin ecosystem and however that mightiness germinate implicit time.
At the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this period I had the accidental to beryllium down and speech with Neha Narula, the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative nether the MIT Media Lab.
Neha antecedently studied astatine MIT, completing her PhD successful 2015. Her probe and enactment has tended to absorption connected distributed systems and databases, with galore contributions involving investigation of the imaginable shortcomings and risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
She antecedently worked connected relaunching the quality aggregation level Digg, and worked astatine Google arsenic a elder bundle engineer, wherever she designed Blobstore, a strategy for redundant replication and transportation of monolithic amounts of data.
We discussed the past of the MIT DCI and its relation successful the past of Bitcoin improvement successful research, arsenic good arsenic the relation of world probe successful wide arsenic it relates to Bitcoin and cryptographic oregon blockchain systems.
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