Bitcoin Takes Off at the UK's Top Flying School
The UK's number one flying school is now letting wannabe pilots pay in bitcoin. The North London Flying School in, you guessed it, North London took the step in November and is using Coinbase to process bitcoin payments. From leisurely flights in a two-seater Piper Cherokee to full-on acrobatic experiences in a Extra 300L, the school offers a range of options for bitcoiners wanting to get up into the air. Like many bitcoin-accepting businesses, the school began taking the currency after one crypto-curious employee took the initiative. General Manager Gavriel Merkado explained: "I had been....
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Indian Mountain School (IMS), an independent, coeducational boarding school in Lakeville, Conn., has announced it will accept bitcoin donations for the school's fundraising activities. The school becomes the first elementary/middle school in the U. S. to accept bitcoin. Joining the school in making the announcement were digital currency payment processor GoCoin LLC and digital currency platform Bitcoin Shop, Inc. (BTCS). The school views introducing digital currency as part of being an innovation and technology leader in education. The school will offer parents and other supporters the....
Last month I attended an interesting Orlando Bitcoin Meetup. The Meetup took place at Bright Learning Academy, a school for special needs students that works with children who need an alternative to traditional school settings. The school takes a technological approach to learning. It's no mystery that kids learn to understand technology much more easily than we do. That's just the way things go. Bright Learning Academy is teaching money management and free market principles with Bitcoin technology. They did it before MIT. Last winter, school teacher Robert Lefebure began signing up....
On March 28, the Scottish school in Edinburgh called the Morningside School of Music decided to accept cryptocurrency payments for tuition. Morningside’s director Linda Boyd said the school had noticed the trend of larger firms joining the crypto economy and it’s “just a matter of time before smaller businesses like ours start doing the same,” she said. Playing to the Beat of a Different Drum According to the Morningside School of Music director Linda Boyd, the well known music academy in Scotland is now accepting digital assets as a form of payment. Boyd said....
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