UBC Bitcoin Club Founder Willson Cross: ‘Charting Your Own Path Should Be the Main Point of Education’
Interview with Willson Cross, UBC Bitcoin Club Founder. Earlier this week, CoinTelegraph reported on the founding of a Bitcoin Club at the University of British Columbia. UBC is based in Vancouver and is the largest university in British Columbia. "Bitcoin doesn’t have necessarily the potential to be just a virtual currency,” says the 21-year-old founder and President Willson Cross, “we also believe it has the potential to be the future of finance." The organization now has 15 members and growing. The newly formed club will first focus on getting the student group UBC Alma Mater Society as....
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