Bitcoin-Friendly University Offers Free Course on Future of Money
The University of Cumbria has announced the launch of a free online Masters-level course that will look at the future of money. The month long 'Money and Society' MOOC (massive open online course) will be targeted at 'monetary innovators and activists from any political persuasion' , and look into 'the essence of money and how it has been interpreted and misinterpreted over the last three millennia' , according to the university. Among other things, the course will seek to address the "dangerous assumption, prevalent in the bitcoin community, that money is best understood as an asset with....
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If you thought that the University of Nicosia's free bitcoin introductory course was a deal, you might be happy to learn that Stanford University is offering a free course on Cryptography, as pointed out on Reddit. The course, Cryptography I, is taught by computer science professor Dan Boneh - who leads the applied cryptography group within the computer science division at Stanford. According to the course description, the course will cover " the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them". The course is composed of video lectures, quizzes, and programming....
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Mexico's Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) reportedly became the first institution in Latin America to welcome bitcoin on campus last month, after a coffee shop began accepting payments in the cryptocurrency. In so doing, the university joined a growing list of global higher education institutions which have also embraced the digital currency. Here's a run-down of some of the most crypto-friendly universities from across the globe. 1. Cyprus' University of Nicosia. In November 2013, the University of Nicosia in Cyprus (UNIC) became the first in the world to accept bitcoin for....
The University of Nicosia became the first university in the world to accept Bitcoin in November. The University has also offered a free MOOC "Introduction to Digital Curriencies." Now the university is offering a nine course MSc in Digital Curriencies. The courses for this degree will be offered on-campus and online in English which you can pay for all in Bitcoin and get 5% off. The program is "designed to help financial services and business professionals, entrepreneurs, government officials and public administrators better understand the technical underpinnings of digital currency, how....