MIT Blockchain and Money Reading List

The idea of a new software system that powers a consensus-driven form of shared record keeping has already had a profound effect, encouraging rapid and substantial investment in what is now commonly referred to as blockchain technology. This column introduces the latest Geneva Report on the World Ec

Thousands of years ago, money took different forms as a means of debt payment, archaeologists and anthropologists say.

A brief history of money from Khublai Khan to modern times.

When Nicky Enright hawks his “Globo” currency, the artist seeks to challenge people’s assumptions about money. WSJ’s Michael J. Casey joins him on a sales pitch

Before starting my investigation into distributed ledgers I did some research on the history of ledgers. What I found really put blockchain…

How does Bitcoin work? What makes it different? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What applications can we build using Bitcoin as a platform? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? If we were designing a new cryptocurrency today, what would we change? What might the futur

National Institutes of Standards and Technology's draft about blockchain technology

Blockchain technology has the potential to change many aspects of the financial services sector and the broader economy. The 21st Geneva Report on the World Economy reviews the basics of blockchain technology and its challenges, costs and benefits, gives an overview of its potential direct impact on

Reliable computer systems must handle malfunctioning components that give conflicting information to different parts of the system. This situation can be expressed abstractly in terms of a group of generals of the Byzantine army camped with their troops around an enemy city. Communicating only by

This article looks at some of the public blockchain alternatives.