Duke University Professor Offers Bitcoin Blockchain Themed Class - Innovation and Cryptoventures

Duke University Professor Offers Bitcoin Blockchain Themed Class - Innovation and Cryptoventures

Fuqua School of Business Professor Campbell Harvey is offering a new class called 'Innovations and Cryptoventures' to students in the Spring 2015 semester. His new class, which has been in development for the last several months, will be available to Law students, MBA students, graduate students, and technically skilled undergraduate students. Other schools that have launched Bitcoin, blockchain, or digital currency related classes or programs include NYU and the University of Nicosia. The mix of students with different skill sets and experience levels is an intentional one, Harvey plans....


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