University Students Find Bitcoin Too Volatile To Use
Just recently, Simon Fraser University (SFU) made an initiative to start accepting bitcoin payments in its book stores. Students at the Canadian university can be able to pay for their books with bitcoin at any of the book stores located on the university campuses and bitcoin ATMs were installed later on. This move was spearheaded by a bitcoin club on campus that sought to educate the rest of the student community on bitcoin usage. "As the founder of SFU's Bitcoin club I'm proud that SFU has the first university administered bookstore in the world to take Bitcoin for purchases," said....
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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....
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....
A group of students from the Technical University of Berlin (TU) has created a chess game on Ethereum using blockchain-based, distributed computing tools. Their mission was to observe how protocols like smart contracts can apply to the age-old strategy game. Technical University of Berlin Students Research a Blockchain Chess App. The blockchain-based....
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) isn't the only higher education institution to be playing around with bitcoin. The University of Zurich in Switzerland is testing out a new NFC-based bitcoin payment solution in one of the school's cafeterias for about two weeks (spearheaded by a group of nine individuals - students and faculty). NFC, of course, is near-field communication, and will allow payments to be made by placing one's mobile device near a receiving point to complete a transaction. This can be done offline, too. And it's all coming together with a mobile wallet app....