Texas A&M Professor to Launch Bitcoin Research Institute

Korok Ray, Bitcoin researcher and Associate Professor at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, announced plans to launch The Bitcoin Research Institute to drive academic research at the intersection of Bitcoin and artificial intelligence.At the MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations 2024 event, Ray made note of Bitcoin’s potential to enable secure multi-party computation (MPC), offering the example of poker players agreeing on the state of a particular game as a basic form of computation.

He expanded this example to include deep neural networks and agent-based reinforcement learning, whereby artificially intelligent agents could collectively perform computations in…

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EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Derby Fans Can Score $100K Prize With Web3-Powered SuperFecta Scratch-Off – Churchill Downs (NASDAQ:CHDN)

The 150th Kentucky Derby on May 4 could have more people paying attention to the superfecta odds and top four finishers than in past years.

What Happened: Virtual horse racing game Photo Finish LIVE announced a SuperFecta Scratch-Off event that will offer a $100,000 prize to one lucky winner.

SuperFecta tickets are minted for free plus the cost of gas on the Base Network, a Layer 2 from Coinbase Global COIN. Photo Finish Live parent company Third Time Entertainment counts Coinbase as an investor.

“As a portfolio company of Coinbase Ventures, it felt long overdue for us to build a seamless experience that works with the Coinbase Wallet to set the stage for an unprecedented FREE MINT event…

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