Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. Interested in distributed systems, cryptography, cryptocurrencies, and programmable money.

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Here's an explanation of how Ark works. Ark is a design for users to share UTXOs on Bitcoin and make cheaper payments.

I joined USA Today's The Excerpt to talk about cash and digital payment systems.

Here's a reflection on 10 years of digital currency at MIT

See this interview with Bitcoin Magazine on how academia intersects with Bitcoin and the history of MIT DCI.

I am participating in the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency Program in late summer 2025. My project is creating a framework for a computer science approach to money as a system.