Bitcoin Here to Stay, Says Cumbria University Professor
In 2014, the University of Cumbria announced that it was accepting the digital currency, bitcoin, from its students as a form of payment, enabling students to pay for two degrees on complementary currencies through alternative means. At the time, the cost of one bitcoin was around $960 and at the start of 2017 the price of one unit of the cryptocurrency had surpassed the $1,000 mark for the first time in three years. According to professor Jem Bendell, founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria, the reason the price of bitcoin has been....
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The British University has invited their students to join two of their courses about complementary currencies and pay their class fees in Bitcoin. This is probably the first time an University has accepted a digital currency as payment for one or more of their classes. The University of Cumbria that is located in England's Lake District offers Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership and a Certificate of Achievement in Sustainable Exchange. It is for these two classes that they are trying out Bitcoin payments via Bitpay. University of Cumbria Accepts Bitcoin for their Classes. We....
The University of Cumbria in the United Kingdom will reportedly begin accepting bitcoins for two new programs related to the study of cryptocurrencies. According to CoinDesk, the programs are being run by the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University. "We are accepting bitcoin as a way of experimenting how it works for a major organisation with many departments," said Jim Bendell, who is the director of the Institute. One of the courses is said to be a certificate in sustainable exchange course, and the other a post-graduate certificate in sustainable leadership. The....
A university in the UK has announced that it will accept bitcoin payments for two new programmes linked to the study of cryptocurrencies and complementary currencies. The courses are run by the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria. The institute's director, Jem Bendell said: "We are accepting bitcoin as a way of experimenting [with] how it works for a major organisation with many departments." The two programmes run by the institute are a certificate in sustainable exchange and a post-graduate certificate in sustainable leadership. The first is taught at....
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....
Back in late January, we learned of the first reports that indicated that Cumbria University in England would be accepting bitcoin payments for two new study programs. Well - it would appear as if one student has taken up the education institution on their offer. Leander Bindewald, 34, has reportedly paid the school one month of fees in the digital currency, amounting to 1.032 bitcoins (just over $460 at the current exchange rate). That's according to the Daily Mail, who says that makes him the first in the world to pay for his tuition with the digital currency, though we cannot confirm....