MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative funded by undisclosed gift funds, attracting Bitcoin core developers
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The passage reveals that gift funds were used to quickly secure the Bitcoin core developers for MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, suggesting a possible financial influence on a high‑profile research Gift funds were used to underwrite the Digital Currency Initiative, enabling rapid recruitment of Bi Three core developers (Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, Cory Fields) moved from the Bitcoin
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