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How The US Government Handles Its Massive Stash Of Bitcoins
"Earlier this year, Arvind Narayanan, a professor at Princeton, conducted research about coins that are burnt and forever unspendable. “We have all heard s…
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Opinion: The tech behind Bitcoin could reinvent cybersecurity
Given the recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure around the world such as the Christmas 2016 power outage in Ukraine, which left more than 200,000 peopl…
Bitcoin is losing the Midas touch
Bitcoin, the decentralised, mainly digital currency that is neither issued nor guaranteed by central banks, has always seemed like a magic trick. Rather than sp…
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MIT Bitcoin Expo Day One Focuses on Technology
"After lunch, Princeton University's Arvind Narayanan took the stage, drawing parallels between the histories of gold mining and telephone line install…
The Blockchain Gang
itcoin is passé. But if the buzz is to be believed, the “block chain” technology behind bitcoin is going to revolutionize your toaster, thebanking system, and e…
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Entrepreneurs Explore Bitcoin's Future
"It is difficult for society to work out a legal framework to differentiate between good and bad uses of this technology, says Arvind Narayanan, a computer…
“Private blockchain” is just a confusing name for a shared database
Banks and financial institutions seem to be all over the blockchain. It seems they agree with the Bitcoin community that the technology behind Bitcoin can provi…
Prof. Arvind Narayanan - Hearsay Culture Show #238 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
Why Bitcoin Matters (To Computer Scientists)
View the full video on YouTube. Talk by Arvind Narayanan at the University of Maryland. Based on a paper-in-progress by Arvind Narayanan and Joseph Bonneau A…
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Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin
"“There are very good reasons why we have legal and social institutions and economic intermediaries,” said Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of comp…
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U. faculty codevelop free online course on Bitcoin
"“A couple of us and our graduate students in the computer science department have been doing and publishing research on bitcoins, and it’s been a fascinat…
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EFF: Bitcoin snooping scheme puts bosses' freedoms at risk - See more at: http://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2014/october/eff-bitcoin-snooping-scheme-puts-bosses-freedoms-at-risk#sthash.9mhnDk1t.dpuf
"EFF Special Counsel Marcia Hofmann said: “The courts have long recognised that code is speech protected by the First Amendment. At their core, digital cur…