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 <stollman.j@gmail.com> wrote:
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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