'Record Attendance' for India Seminar Reveals Keen Interest in Bitcoin
Vishal Gupta speaks at the Bitcoin Alliance of India student seminar. Bitcoin in India is showing plenty of promise at the grassroots level, as demonstrated by 250 undergraduate students who attended a seminar at the HR College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai last Thursday. Those present already demonstrated a basic knowledge of bitcoin and some of its technical aspects such as block chain transparency and mining, according to Vishal Gupta of the Bitcoin Alliance of India, who headed the presentation. Gupta told CoinDesk he was impressed at the level of interest, saying: "College....
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