Altcoins Talks - Cryptocurrency Forum
Learning & News => News related to Crypto => Topic started by: waybesuricata on April 27, 2022, 11:03:19 AM
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2021 has been a transformative year for Bitcoin and blockchain technology as a whole. It was a year marked with many new milestones. We saw the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in the history of the world.
We had the launch of the first Bitcoin Futures ETF to trade in the United States. We also finally experienced the activation of Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated soft-fork with a focus on enhancing the network’s privacy and security.
Throughout the semester, the members of the MIT Bitcoin community had many opportunities to learn from one another about the merits and challenges of blockchain, discuss the latest trends in the space, and contemplate the future of digital money.
In our meetings this year, we have covered everything from cryptographic primitives and data structures (VDFs, Vector Commitments, Verkle Trees), to scalability (Lightning and other side chains, Rollups, etc.), to crowdfunding platforms and mechanics (Gitcoin, Quadratic Voting). As always, we held introductory sessions on cryptographic primers and specific cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin and Ethereum) at the beginning of the semester, helping onboard new digital natives interested in learning more about the unique potential of new decentralized technologies.
The MIT Bitcoin Club is a student-run organization open to all enthusiasts. Our mission is to increase awareness about cryptocurrency, improve on its use-cases and provide an open forum where blockchain-related ideas, projects, programs, and businesses can be studied, discussed, and developed. With this goal in mind, the club has organized the MIT Bitcoin Expo — a two-day conference focused on all things blockchain — every year since 2014.
Source: https://beincrypto.com/mit-bitcoin-expo-2022-breaking-through-marketing-collateral/