More US Colleges & Universities Offering Bitcoin Courses In The Fall
Bitcoin penetrated American academia for the first time in 2014, as top-ranked US universities New York University and Duke University offered their inaugural cryptocurrency courses that year. Since then, Bitcoin courses at US colleges and universities is a new trend. NYU and Duke were each ranked in the top 10 in relevant categories in the US News and World Report. NYU's first course was called The Law and Business of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies. The Duke course was called Innovation, Disruption and Cryptoventures, with a research emphasis on potential businesses that use the block....
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