Interesting - the W3C is about to charter a WG for 'Verifiable Claims' -
which are intended to be essentially the same thing (I think). OpenBadge,
Pearson and ETS are contributors with one purpose to publish OpenBadges via
blockchain - which is very similar to the educational credentials objective
at MIT Media Labs.
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:41 AM, j stollman
MIT Media Lab is proffering a standard for blockchain-secured certificates:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/mit-media-lab- releases-code-for-digital-certificates-on-the-blockchain-1465404945
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