BEN Pays Students Bitcoin to Take New Blockchain Class
The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) has had a busy fall semester introducing, educating, and giving away Bitcoin. The initiative believes wholeheartedly that students should understand cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Now the organization is ramping up its efforts to educate the academic masses, offering a bounty to students who help build a....
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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....
This year, a new line of digital currency experts are now ready to take on the problems facing the industry and create solutions for the future. Most importantly, they will be able to do this with unprecedented authority as the graduates of the first ever Master’s program in digital currency. Students of the Blockchain: The First Official ‘Masters’ of....
Here's an interesting one. Two professors from New York University (specifically from the NYU Law School and Stern School of Business) are looking to start a class on the topic of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Law professor Geoffrey Miller and finance professor David Yermack have already put together a syllabus to show their superiors, who will ultimately have final say as to whether or not the class is a go. The class, called "The Law and Business of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies", is designed to look into topics such as whether or not....
Uniswap’s UNI token distribution paid nearly half of the tuition for students who attended one “Crypto 101” course. Students enrolled in the class “Introduction to Cryptocurrencies” at Turkey’s Kadir Has University were the unexpected winners of Uniswap’s UNI token distribution on Sept. 17. İsmail Hakkı Polat, one of two lecturers of the class, told Cointelegraph Turkey that all students who, as part of a class project, participated in listing and swapping a token on Uniswap received 400 UNI. In Turkey’s local currency, it was valued at roughly 12,000 liras, or around $1,570, which....
Last week, I got the chance to sit in on New York University's (NYU) class on cryptocurrencies. The course, led by finance professor David Yermack and law professor Geoffrey Miller, is offered jointly by both the Stern School of Business and the NYU School of Law. As one of the only cryptocurrency courses offered in the world, these students could shape the future political and financial landscape for the cryptocommunity, both domestically and internationally. Also read: NYU Prepares Class on Cryptocurrencies. This is the First Semester NYU has Offered this Class. I wrote about this course....