Bitcoin Summer School Announced in Greece
Remember when you used to dread going to summer school? Well, now you can get excited to get that extra educational push by attending the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) Bitcoin School in Greece. From May 29th to June 2nd, 2016 some of the brightest academic minds in the industry will be teaching students distributed ledger....
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