Draper University Bitcoin Course Now Available
Here's a public service announcement that serves as a follow-up to a recent story indicating that Draper University would be offering a free course on bitcoin. As planned, the course has gone live today. Here's a direct link to the course overview page. The course is taught (as mentioned) by Draper University, and the project comes together in a partnership with ZapChain, a social network for professionals in the bitcoin industry. The idea behind the course is to make "bitcoin more approachable," with the hope that students will be inspired to innovate with the digital currency. Here's the....
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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....
Tim Draper has become one of the biggest names in the Bitcoin world in recent years. After successfully placing the highest bid on the first batch of Bitcoins seized and sold by the FBI during the shutdown of Silk Road, Tim Draper has become synonymous with price predictions and Draper University , a startup accelerator. In more recent times, the name Tim Draper has made its way to television screens near you, as Draper University is the center stage of ABC’s new tv show “Startup U.” In this television show, the focus lies on young entrepreneurs enrolled at Draper University, and the....
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....
My friend John Scianna, an active participant in the bitcoin community (and writer for Bitcoin Magazine), is working to attend Draper University and needs our help to fund his endeavor. He told me about his plan, and other than donating a few satoshis, I didn't know how I could be of service to this fellow bitcoiner. Then I had a lightbulb moment: I'll write about it.While putting together the questions below for John to anwswer, I realized how important it is for us as a community to support each other - because if we don't, who will? Donation info is at the bottom of the page.1. What is....
The American venture capitalist and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Tim Draper, is still confident in his bitcoin prediction that says the crypto asset will tap $250K per unit. Draper said in April 2018, at the Draper University blockchain party, that he predicted: “$250K by 2022.” At this year’s Web Summit 2022 event, Draper said he “extended” his forecast “by six months,” as he now predicts bitcoin will tap that price range “by mid-2023.”
Tim Draper Says Bitcoin to Hit $250K by Mid-2023
Tim Draper spoke....