MIT Students Are Experimenting with Innovative Bitcoin Applications
In November MIT undergraduates who signed up for the MIT Bitcoin Project each received the equivalent of $100 in the cryptocurrency. Now that they have it, they are beginning to develop innovative ways to use it, MIT Spectrum reports. The MIT Bitcoin Project has partnered with Institute researchers and professors to study how students use their bitcoins and measure growth in the bitcoin ecosystem at MIT. The MIT Club provides a forum within and beyond the MIT community, where Bitcoin-related ideas, projects, programs, events, and businesses can be studied, discussed, and developed. The....
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Stanford has been active in Bitcoin as a campus. American academia has offered courses across the country on cryptocurrencies for a couple of years now. New York University, Duke University, Princeton and others have all offered courses on Bitcoin. The Stanford University School of Engineering in Stanford, Calif. offers a new course, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, for the Autumn semester. 100 students have enrolled and the course features labwork in which students experiment with Bitcoin applications. The syllabus is available here. There is no limit as to how many students may enroll. The....
Stanford University is offering a lab course on building bitcoin-enabled applications. The course is scheduled to run from Jan. 4 to March 11 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays in building 420-041 at the Stanford campus. The introduction to bitcoin (Jan. 4) presented concepts like digital signatures, the blockchain, transactions and mining. Instructors are Balaji S. Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO of 21 Inc., and Dan Boneh, a Stanford professor of computer science and electrical engineering. Students will learn how to rewire Internet services based on bitcoin. The school....
The College Cryptocurrency Network (CCN), a leading cryptocurrency organization supported by established financial institutions and bitcoin startups including Barclays, Augur, BitGo, Blockchain, Ethereum and Factom, has officially announced the launch of the "Borderless Block Party," a month-long hackathon designed for high school and undergraduate university students to create innovative financial solutions and technologies through the implementation of bitcoin and the blockchain technology. The participants of the Hackathon will be mentored by financial experts and bitcoin gurus from its....
Students are now turning to crypto to plug the financial gap that comes with schooling. It is no surprise that the cost of schooling has gone up tremendously over the years. Now more than ever, students are graduating with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt. But even the massive loans students have to […]
Fuqua School of Business Professor Campbell Harvey is offering a new class called 'Innovations and Cryptoventures' to students in the Spring 2015 semester. His new class, which has been in development for the last several months, will be available to Law students, MBA students, graduate students, and technically skilled undergraduate students. Other schools that have launched Bitcoin, blockchain, or digital currency related classes or programs include NYU and the University of Nicosia. The mix of students with different skill sets and experience levels is an intentional one, Harvey plans....