Defense attorneys argued that the MIT brothers’ trading strategy was innovative, legal, and competitive in the cryptocurrency ...

A federal judge on Friday declared a mistrial in the case of two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers ...

A judge in New York on Friday declared a mistrial in the fraud case against two brothers, both recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who were accused of stealing roughly ...

A distributed ledger written in Go based loosely on the Satoshi Nakamotot bitcoin whitepaper. Credit also given to Gary Gensler's course on MIT openCourseWare: Blockchain and Money. Zero dependencies ...

In an embarrassing error, PayPal blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion of the PYUSD token today. PayPal's stablecoin, which it debuted in 2023, is supposed to be redeemable at a ...

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A 12-second cryptocurrency transaction is at the center of a major federal trial. As reported by Business Insider, former Massachusetts Institute of Technology students James and Anton Peraire-Bueno ...

A “first-of-its-kind” alleged crypto heist is going to trial this week. In May 2024, the Justice Department accused two brothers, Anton Peraire-Bueno, 25, and James Pepaire-Bueno, 29, of stealing $25 ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first university to reject the Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which would have given it ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

No one should be surprised that MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first university president to flatly reject President Trump’s attempted hostile takeover of American higher education. On Oct. 10, MIT ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university to reject a sweeping proposal from the Trump administration offering colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching ...