University of Wyoming introduces Bitcoin Research Institute

To boost studies and research in the field of Bitcoin, the University of Wyoming has announced that it will open a Bitcoin Research Institute.

Study in US: The University of Wyoming has announced the launch of the Bitcoin Research Institute which will offer “high-quality peer-reviewed” research in this field. The institute is all set to be operational in August 2025.

Director, University of Wyoming Bitcoin Research Institute has announced on the X platform, "ANNOUNCEMENT: The University of Wyoming has established the UW Bitcoin Research Institute. http://uwyo.edu/bitcoinThe BRI aims to produce high-quality peer-reviewed publications about Bitcoin from all academic disciplines."

The director of the University of Wyoming Bitcoin Research Institute Dr. Bradley Rettler is Associate Professor of Philosophy.

"If you're a scholar and you want to be involved, my DMs are open! If you're a journalist and you want to learn more, my DMs are open!," he said in another X message.

The institute is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, and it will contribute to the curriculum in economics, philosophy, and interdisciplinary courses, and will also support peer-reviewed academic research on Bitcoin.

How Myxobacteria form Social Groups, studies UW Professor

A professor at the University of Wyoming has led a research team to study how myxobacteria form social groups.

Dan Wall, a professor in the UW Department of Molecular Biology said, “We showed that myxobacteria that adapt to a stress -- in our case, detergent resistance -- can transfer that trait to naïve kin cells in a manner dependent on TraA/B, or outer membrane exchange. To our knowledge, this is the first time an adaption trait was shown to transfer from one cell to another, whether bacteria or a eukaryote, which are plants and animals. We also surprisingly found these adapted or ‘donor’ cells benefited by sharing their adaption by forming a harmonious population where the former cells were not stressed by dying siblings in the presence of detergent.”

The study is titled - “Cell-cell transfer of adaptation traits benefits kin and actor in a cooperative microbe” and Wall is the senior author of this research. A former UW graduate student in Wall’s lab, Kalpana Subedi is the paper’s lead author. Most of the experiments were conducted by her and she significantly contributed to writing the paper.

Wall adds, “These findings give us a broader understanding of what microbes can do in biofilms; provide insights into how cells can cooperate; and evolutionary steps involved in multicellularity evolution.”

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