Blockchain University Launches With Course in Cryptocurrency
Blockchain University has launched with its Pure Blockchain course geared towards serious developer. Mostly what people think about when they hear the word Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency. But many others think of the underlying technology and what else it can do. The blockchain is a foundation on which so much can be done not just cryptocurrencies. It is so robust that evenPatrick Byrne of Overstock has Counterparty developers working on an alternative to the stock exchange based on the blockchain. The launch of an intensive course about the blockchain will help more people realize the....
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Those of us who have been closely following the happenings in bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry have heard about National Science Foundation's recent grant to three top universities in the United States for research on cryptocurrencies. University of Maryland is one of the recipients of the total $3 million research grant along with Cornell University and University of California- Berkeley. A lot of us haven't had a chance to know what kind of research these universities will be doing on bitcoin to receive a small fortune. Here is an insight to what the researchers at University of....