Tech Education Startup Treehouse Looks to Bitcoin Payments for International Advantage
Orlando, Florida-based online interactive education specialist Treehouse has announced that it will now accept bitcoin for its subscription web design and web development education services. Treehouse, which to date has raised $24.6m through six funding rounds, boasts 70,000 students who use the platform to learn valuable skills in languages and software such as Android, CSS, HTML, Java, jQuery, iOS and Ruby, among others. Treehouse COO and CFO Michael Watson told CoinDesk that while the company has been aware of bitcoin for some time due to its tech-savvy user base, it only recently felt....
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