Draper University Bitcoin Course is Live - and Free
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....
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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....
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....
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....
Draper University - a Silicon Valley-based school for entrepreneurs (and also the brainchild of investor Timothy Draper) - has announced that they have teamed up with ZapChain in order to put together a free-of-charge course on bitcoin conducted online. The idea is to get those with an interest in the digital currency educated in a mostly non-technical fashion, regardless of how much they do or do not currently know on the subject. It is also designed to illustrate its potential in the financial sector. "The largest problem in the Bitcoin adoption world right now is education and this is....
Draper University recently announced a new online Bitcoin course in partnership with ZapChain. Based in Silicon Valley, Draper University has been accepting Bitcoin for well over a year and has a long history of leading the cutting edge of curriculum design with new and innovative classes. ZapChain is a "growing network of Bitcoin professionals." Adam Draper, the founder of Boost, said: The largest problem in the Bitcoin adoption world right now is education and this is the best Bitcoin education course online. It [Bitcoin] answers all the questions by giving access to the experts in the....