Draper 'entrepreneur heroes' University welcomes tuition in bitcoins
Draper University is not your average college. In fact, if your university years are over, it's probably not like any institute of higher education that you have ever heard of. Tim Draper, a well-known venture capitalist and managing director of the VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded the school. (Check out Draper's bio on the firm's website, and you'll find - in addition to the usual curriculum vitae details - a picture of Draper riding some sort of dual horned animal statue.) Officially known as Draper University of Heroes, the school's goal is to educate the world's next generation....
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The venture capitalist investor who won the US Marshall Bitcoin Auction, Tim Draper, has launched his own Bitcoin education program. The Draper University Bitcoin Course is a comprehensive online bitcoin program. Enrollment is free and students receive lifetime access to fourty two lectures, three quizzes, and seven hours of video content. Draper University is the entrepreneur-centric college created by Tim Draper. The course claims "Students will understand Bitcoin as both a technology and a currency at a high level and will be able to start using it right away." The curriculum begins....
The University of Nicosia has received its first tuition payment from a student using bitcoin. Back in November, the Cypriot university announced it would accept the cryptocurrency for tuition and fee payments, becoming the world's first accredited university to do so. By late November the university had received a payment from Francois Rossouw, a South African student. Rossouw paid 1 BTC towards tuition for an online Master of Business Administration degree, so he could be on his way to receive the first bitcoin-funded MBA. He said: "I am honoured to be a part of this historical occasion.....
The King's College, a private Christian liberal arts college located in New York City's financial district, is now accepting bitcoin for tuition and other expenses through a partnership with merchant processor Coin.co. The announcement by The King's College marks the latest major university to accept bitcoin following decisions from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus and more recently the UK's University of Cumbria. Although California-based online and residential school Draper University announced its decision to accept bitcoin in 2013, the move by The King's College into the bitcoin....
How would you like to go to school and pay in Bitcoin while doing so? A Cyprus University is doing just that. The University of Nicosia is now allowing students to pay their tuition bills and other fees using Bitcoin. It's the first University in the world to do so, and hopefully it sets a trend for colleges elsewhere around the world. "We are acutely aware that digital currency is an inevitable technical development that will lead to significant innovation," says Dr. Christos Vlachos, who is a part of the Council of UNic and works as the school's chief financial officer. How soon until we....