Feb 29, 2016
MIT Sloan Brings Bitcoin Conference to Campus
The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced that the university’s own Bitcoin Club will host its yearly Expo on March 5 and 6. Bitcoin, for readers who missed out on the Silk Road darknet market controversy of 2013—along with their chance to purchase guns, pharmaceuticals, and data from the comfort of their own home—is an open-source virtual currency, which, according to its official site, “uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks.”