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Sahara co-founders Tyler Zhou and Sean Ren (Sahara)
Technology
Ai
USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers
Sahara co-founder Sean Ren, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California, says his tech can help workers and businesses get compensated for their know...
Sahara co-founders Tyler Zhou and Sean Ren (Sahara)
By Sam Kessler
Mar 5, 2024 at 5:01 p.m. UTC
Mar 5, 2024
AIOpen aiChatgptAcademic ResearchCaliforniaPolychain CapitalFundraise
Building on Carnegie Mellon campus.
Markets
Bitmex
Crypto Derivatives Boom Leaves Small Traders Vulnerable to Liquidation: Carnegie Mellon
Sophisticated actors are taking from amateur investors in bitcoin derivatives trading, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers using data from BitMEX.
Building on Carnegie Mellon campus.
By Damanick Dantes
May 5, 2021 at 5:39 p.m. UTC
May 5, 2021
BitMEXAcademic ResearchBitcoin FuturesCryptocurrency Derivatives
Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.
Markets
Censorship
Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.
Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.
By Anna Baydakova
Jun 22, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Jun 22, 2020
CensorshipCopyrightAcademic ResearchBitcoinSci-Hub
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Tech
Research
Free Transactions Invite Systemic Attacks on Blockchains, Researchers Find
EOS, Tezos and XRP have not seen high levels of intended use, according to a new report from researchers in London.
Credit: Shutterstock
By Brady Dale
Jun 11, 2020 at 10:12 p.m. UTC
Jun 11, 2020
ResearchXRPAcademic ResearchEOSTezosBlockchains
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Tech
Privacy
'Careless' Users Are Ruining Ethereum's Privacy: Paper
Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues.
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By Paddy Baker
Jun 4, 2020 at 9:08 a.m. UTC
Jun 4, 2020
PrivacyEthereumAcademic Research
FLASH: Balances on the Lightning Network can be revealed by relatively straightforward cyberattacks, researchers say. (Credit: Shutterstock)
Tech
Privacy
Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information.
FLASH: Balances on the Lightning Network can be revealed by relatively straightforward cyberattacks, researchers say. (Credit: Shutterstock)
By Ada Hui
Apr 21, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. UTC
Apr 21, 2020
PrivacyResearchpaymentsAcademic ResearchCryptographyLightning Network
RESEARCH ME: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to learn more about "black swan" events that would sink the U.S. dollar. (Image via Shutterstock)
Policy
Academic research
US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing 'Black Swan' Events
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve...
RESEARCH ME: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to learn more about "black swan" events that would sink the U.S. dollar. (Image via Shutterstock)
By Nate DiCamillo
Feb 14, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. UTC
Feb 14, 2020
Academic ResearchU.S. DollarOffice of the Director of National Intelligenceblack swan
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Tech
Payments
MIT Develops 'Spider' Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions
The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks.
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By Daniel Palmer
Feb 3, 2020 at 2:01 p.m. UTC
Feb 3, 2020
paymentsMITAcademic ResearchPayment Channels
Moscow and state duma
Markets
Security
Moscow Blockchain Voting System 'Completely Insecure,' Says Researcher
A blockchain system that will soon be used to allow Moscow residents to vote in elections is currently easy to hack, according to a researcher.
Moscow and state duma
By Daniel Palmer
Aug 16, 2019 at 12:17 p.m. UTC
Aug 16, 2019
SecurityRussiaVotingAcademic ResearchNewsMoscow
reddit
Markets
Reddit
DARPA-Funded Study Looks at How Crypto Chats Spread on Reddit
A U.S. Department of Energy science lab has been studying how well three popular cryptos performed in Reddit chats. Here's what they found.
reddit
By Benedict Alibasa
Jun 6, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 6, 2019
redditAcademic ResearchSocial MediaNewsDARPA