University of Nicosia Offering a Free Introductory Digital Currency Course

University of Nicosia Offering a Free Introductory Digital Currency Course

The University of Nicosia made history by becoming the first educational institution to offer bitcoin tuition payment. Now, the University is offering an Introduction to Digital Currencies course, for free. For those interested in this MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), the only real pre-requisite is that you speak English proficiently. Aside from the fact that the University's instructors will be leading the course, Andreas Antonopoulos and Antonis Polemitis will serve as course lecturers. Mr. Antonopoulos' book, Mastering Bitcoin, is listed as required reading for the course. "I am....


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