Courses — MIT Digital Currency Initiative
This Cryptocurrency online short course from the MIT Media Lab offers you a rigorous perspective and ground truths about crypto assets, exploring its economics, underlying blockchain technology, functionality, challenges, and future potential.
Guided by MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative – as well as crypto industry experts, economists, financial regulators, and internet entrepreneurs – you’ll gain the skills to critically assess the viability of crypto projects, and understand the opportunities and challenges associated with these new technologies.
Taking a comprehensive approach, you’ll explore cryptocurrencies in comparison with traditional finance, and gain insight into how start-ups, financial institutions, big tech, and central banks are responding to its emergence.
In six weeks, you’ll gain insight into blockchain technology and the broader environment in which cryptocurrencies exist. At the end of the program, you’ll be equipped with the critical reasoning skills to analyze the viability of any crypto project.
