Flinders University Is The First To Accept Bitcoin In Australia
Flinders University is the first Australian University to accept payments in Bitcoin. Though Flinders University doesn't accept yet Bitcoin is as general payment option for university fees, Flinders' New Venture Institute is now running a pilot project and accepting Bitcoin as payment for its Venture Dorm program for practical, experiential, entrepreneurial education. Venture Dorm provides an educational environment for people who want to learn how entrepreneurs build new ventures and then create one themselves. The aim is taking an idea, finding a viable business model which is scalable....
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Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia is accepting bitcoin. Well, sort of. Business Insider Australia reports that the school is the first educational institution in the land down under to accept bitcoin payments. But it's not exactly what you might think. The report indicates that bitcoin is only being accepted for something called 'Venture Dorm', a twelve-week program that focuses on entrepreneurial education. It's run by the New Venture Institute and Entrepreneurs in Conversation event series, Business Insider says. Vice Chancellor at the University, Michael Barber, said that....
Today, CoinJar, Melbourne-based Bitcoin payments provider, announced Tomcar's decision to accept Bitcoin in payment. Tomcar Australia is now the world's first original equipment car manufacturer to accept Bitcoin. Tomcar Australia's Co-Founder & CEO, David Brim, highlighted the similarities between Bitcoin and Tomcar. According to Brim, Tomcar "disrupts the old system" just as Bitcoin provides around traditional payment methods. Tomcar has been in the business of manufacturing unique commercial off-road utility vehicles for over 30 years. Bitcoin will inevitably open up the door for....
ESMT University in Berlin has become the first German university to accept bitcoin as payment for tuition and more. ESMT Berlin: First German University to Accept Bitcoin. The European School of Management and Technology in Berlin has become the first German university to accept virtual currency Bitcoin as a means of payment for tuition, particularly its degree and executive education programs. “Bitcoins can now be used for all payments to the ESMT,” the press release states. “The digital cash makes it possible, as it were, to send SMS without the involvement of a bank worldwide within a....
The British University has invited their students to join two of their courses about complementary currencies and pay their class fees in Bitcoin. This is probably the first time an University has accepted a digital currency as payment for one or more of their classes. The University of Cumbria that is located in England's Lake District offers Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership and a Certificate of Achievement in Sustainable Exchange. It is for these two classes that they are trying out Bitcoin payments via Bitpay. University of Cumbria Accepts Bitcoin for their Classes. We....
A university in the UK has announced that it will accept bitcoin payments for two new programmes linked to the study of cryptocurrencies and complementary currencies. The courses are run by the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria. The institute's director, Jem Bendell said: "We are accepting bitcoin as a way of experimenting [with] how it works for a major organisation with many departments." The two programmes run by the institute are a certificate in sustainable exchange and a post-graduate certificate in sustainable leadership. The first is taught at....