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  Explainer: What is a blockchain? - MIT Technology Review

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  What is it? A public1, permanent2, append-only3 distributed4 ledger5. What’s that? A mathematical structure for storing data in a way that is nearly …

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  The problem with ICOs is that they’re called ICOs - MIT Technology Review

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  To say initial coin offerings have “exploded” is, for once, to use the word justifiably. Buyers put $256 million into them in 2016, $5.5 billion in …

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  A glossary of blockchain jargon - MIT Technology Review

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  Consensus protocol/ A process, encoded in software, by which computers in a network, called nodes, reach an agreement about a set of …

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  How to fix one of Bitcoin’s biggest problems - MIT Technology Review

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  Algorand doesn’t use miners, and the computation required to secure the ledger is “trivial,” which makes the system very fast, says Micali. It uses …

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  Let’s destroy Bitcoin - MIT Technology Review

  MIT Technology Review - Morgen Peck

  In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto served the world an entirely new kind of currency. It was one that people could move over the internet instantaneously and …

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  Former regulator under Obama says more than 1,000 ICOs are not following the law - MIT Technology Review

  MIT Technology Review - Mike Orcutt

  More than 100 cryptocurrency exchanges and over 1,000 initial coin offerings are operating outside US laws meant to protect investors from fraud, …