4 Unique Things in Bitcoin for Students

CoinSpeaker 4 Unique Things in Bitcoin for Students Becky Holton, education expert, professional journalist and blogger, shares her vision of four most important and valuable benefits Bitcoin has to offer to students. 4 Unique Things in Bitcoin for Students

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Billions Living Under Authoritarian Regimes Need Bitcoin Says Human Rights Activist

When reporting on cryptocurrency, the mainstream media often focuses on price drops relating to USD. But a human rights activist reminds the general public that Bitcoin is not another commodity or stock on the market, rather, a tool for liberation.

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Unbanked Iranian University Students Turn to Bitcoin to Pay Tuition

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Want to Build a Crypto Startup? Tim Draper University Can Help

Crypto legend, and Bitcoin permabull, and venture capitalist Tim Draper is now holding programs to help entrepreneurs build crypto startups at the Draper University. It’s long been debatable whether it’s worth earning a traditional college degree or not.

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The Daily: Atari Partners Decentralized Gaming Company, Tagomi Goes Live

In today’s edition of The Daily, we cover stories that show how crypto assets and technology continue to impact the development of everything, from mobile games to artificial intelligence. We also feature a new crypto trading venue that aims to bring in more investment from ultra wealthy families and institutions.

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Hit by Sanctions, Iranian Students in the UK Use Bitcoin to Bypass Banks

Before cryptocurrencies started to be widely used for speculation, they were first of all meant to be an unstoppable method for people to control their own money. A new example that this is still a needed use case comes from the U.

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Op Ed: Bitcoin Is a Declaration of Our Monetary Independence

Nick Spanos is an early adopter and innovator in the blockchain space. He is best known for launching Bitcoin Center NYC, the world’s first live cryptocurrency exchange, in 2013, right next to the New York Stock Exchange — as immortalized in the Netflix documentary “Banking on Bitcoin.

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Extortionists extend bomb threats to campus students, requests Bitcoin [BTC] payment in order to back down

Usually, cryptocurrency scammers and extortionists are often confined to the virtual space, making exchanges and uninformed users their major target. However, the recent events that occurred in the past 24hrs have shown that these fraudsters are stretching their activities to university campuses and random workspaces.

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TRON Releases Weekly Report, TRON Ecosystem Co-Builder Plan Will Be Launched Soon

The Tron Foundation recently released the international version of its weekly report in which it detailed the technical projects and community development efforts it has been working on. The Foundation revealed that tests for a multi-signature wallet are in progress.

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Tron Foundation Organized a Blockchain Event For China’s Peking University Students

The Tron Foundation recently organized an event to move closer to the student community. It organized the “TRON to The Future, Blockchain Technology and Ecosystem” event, in association with global blockchain crowd selling incubator platform DOGI at China’s prestigious Peking University.

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The Daily: US Bank to Issue Crypto Cards, Coinbase Updates Wallet

In Sunday’s edition of The Daily, we cover the upcoming launch of a new Visa debit card that will allow users in the U. S. to spend cryptocurrencies through conversion to fiat. We also mention the updated Coinbase wallet and take a look at an educational course that’s going to reward students with digital coins.

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Korea’s KAIST University Adds Blockchain Application Courses to Curriculum

South Korea’s leading technology university, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working with Theta Labs, the first blockchain-based video delivery system, to introduce students to an entirely new set of coursework regarding the applications of blockchain technology.

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Binance Labs Holds Talks With Harvard, MIT and Columbia University Students

Binance recently talked about this past weekend’s activity with students at the Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University. Binance Labs, the investment arm of the largest crypto exchange in the world held a meetup titled, “State of Blockchain: A Chat with Binance Labs.

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Financia Business School Accepts Bitcoin Payments For Blockchain Studies

The fintech school, founded back in 2014, is currently offering users to pay with cryptocurrencies for their studies. Students have the possibility to chose post-Bachelor and MBA level qualifications.

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French Business School Accepts Fees in Bitcoin for Blockchain Technology Courses

France’s Financia Business School, which offers post-graduate courses in financial and blockchain technology, now allows students to pay their fees in cryptocurrency. Since the institution introduced the measure, about half a dozen students have paid in BTC for the 2018 academic year.

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Universities Are Reluctant to Accept Crypto Donations

The vast majority of colleges are still very uncomfortable with accepting cryptocurrency donations. This mindset might not change anytime soon amid concerns about volatility and taxation. Cryptocurrency and blockchain are still hot discussion topics across many university campuses, despite turbulent markets in 2018.

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Among the Many Unique Donations Colleges Receive, Bitcoin Puzzles Them

Among the Many Unique Donations Colleges Have Received, Bitcoin Has Them Puzzled Many colleges have the luxury of being recipients of donations from students and students’ families over the years, which have been both traditional donations and less traditional ones.

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New Impact Ledger to Raise Awareness of Blockchain Projects for Social Good

The Blockchain Trust Accelerator (BTA) has received a six-figure grant from the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF) to build its latest project known as The Impact Ledger, an online registry of blockchain projects designed to assist in the public, nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: Zcash Is Groundbreaking (If You Trust It)

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.

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Bitcoin Degree: NYU Is First College To Offer Major In Crypto

Want to study Bitcoin (BTC)? Actually, now you can major in cryptos. New York University has become the first U. S. college to offer a major in cryptocurrencies through the Stern School of Business.

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In Deep With Cryptocurrencies: Cryptos Find Love In NYU

young students view the new blockchain technology as a whole new industry, with Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) representing “internet 3.0.” The post In Deep With Cryptocurrencies: Cryptos Find Love In NYU appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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ConsenSys Initiative Empowers Students to Use Blockchain for Social Good

ConsenSys Social Impact — a program designed to build blockchain-based solutions for global humanitarian issues — is partnering with MakerDAO and optiMize to launch a new Blockchain for Social Impact Incubator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Today’s Students Could Spur Bitcoin Adoption Within the Next Decade

Student behavior is usually a good indicator of how successful new technologies could be in terms of adoption. For example, students were first to embrace the use of the Internet and Facebook before they eventually spread to the rest of the population.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: More Than an Academic View of Progress

This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.

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Coinbase Claims Steady Rise in Crypto Courses and Interested Students in New Report

Coinbase, in a recent blog post, suggested that students are moving toward blockchain and cryptocurrencies at an increasing rate. The report was prepared with the help of its partner, Qriously, which surveyed 675 students in the US and reviewed courses at 50 international universities.

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RMIT University Introduces Online Blockchain Infrastructure Courses to Meet High Demand

RMIT University Online announced on Aug 28, 2018, the launch of two new blockchain courses designed to educate students on how to develop blockchain infrastructure for their own businesses. The online university partnered with Stone and Chalk, Accenture and Flex Dapps to create the only Australian university-backed courses for blockchain technology.

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Coinbase: 42% of World’s Best Universities Offer Crypto Courses

The ecosystem’s largest bank and quasi-exchange, Coinbase, commissioned a survey about higher education (students and faculty) attitudes toward crypto and blockchain. They found over 40% of leading universities around the world offer at least one course in blockchain or crypto, and 25% of all students, regardless of major, said they would consider taking classes in […] The post Coinbase: 42% of World’s Best Universities Offer Crypto Courses appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Blockchain Courses Popular With University Students, Coinbase Study Finds

Crypto is making its entrance into the world’s academic scene, and students are lining up to learn. A recent Coinbase study reveals that University students want to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

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Dead Man’s Switch App Wins Tokyo Hackathon for Bitcoin Cash Grand Prize

Thirty four tech-savvy engineers, enthusiasts and students gathered at Hash Hub, the co-working space in the Tokyo University neighborhood to participate in a hackathon organized and sponsored by Crypto Age, Yenom and Bitcoin.

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Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning App Classes

The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants.

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She(256) Mentorship Program Aims to Help More Women Gain a Cryptocurrency Career

She(256) is a clever name for a novel scheme. The female-focused mentorship program is designed to support women entering the cryptocurrency space. In doing so, the program will enable students to benefit from the guidance of a crypto OG – a seasoned professional whose business and technical experience should prove invaluable.

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PR: Contentos Launches Public Content Chain

Contentos (COS) hosted its ‘Mastering your creativity with COS’ event at Andaz Hotel in Tokyo as part of a global tour. The event attracted major industry executives, including LiveMe CEO Yuki, Ontology founder Li Jun, Danhua Capital partner Selina, COS cofounder Mick, Blockshine CEO Daniel Zhang, Coinbase chief investment officer Ling, DAD Japan head Leslie Wu, PhotoGrid head of products Angela, and Cheez head of operations Wang Xinyuang.

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Mining Round-Up: Nvidia Shares Drop, College Students Mine on Campus

In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency mining, Nvidia has witnessed a drop in its share price after announcing an unexpectedly modest earnings outlook – partly driven by reduced demand for mining hardware.

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New Transport Layer bloXroute Promises to Solve Bitcoin’s Biggest Problem

bloXroute Labs and a team of Northwestern University students believe Bitcoin’s biggest problem, scalability, can be solved without affecting its chief virtue — decentralization. Northwestern and bloXroute Labs Are Working to Solve Scalability Issue Critics have always identified the limited number of transactions that Bitcoin’s network can process as its most significant problem.

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Students are Mining Bitcoin in University Dorms, Campuses are Alert

While Bitcoin mining — which is the backbone of many public blockchains —  is often left to the operators of data centers, some university students have begun to try their hand at running their own, in-dorm mining efforts.

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Bears Battle Bulls at $7000: Where Will Bitcoin Price Go From Here?

As Bitcoin price (BTC) continues to trade in the red, losing roughly around 15 percent of its value over the last week, two econometric models forecast either a very bright future or particularly hard times ahead.

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Future Analysts Will Be Tested on Cryptocurrencies in New CFA Curriculum

As the crypto market continues to meld into the realm of traditional finance, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute is taking notice — so much so that the organization is adding cryptocurrency and blockchain sections to its 2019 certification exams.

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Digital Isle of Man Joins the British Blockchain Association

One of the earliest adopters of blockchain technology — the Digital Isle of Man (Digital IOM) — is now an official member of the British Blockchain Association (BBA).

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U.K. Banks Warned to Be Careful With Cryptocurrencies

The Bank of England has warned U. K. lenders to study cryptocurrencies before doing business in the space. In a letter sent out to the financial institutions in the country yesterday, the Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods warned financial companies to take appropriate steps to protect themselves against "exposure to crypto-assets" which he believes are susceptible to "fraud and manipulation, as well as money-laundering and terrorist financing risks.

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From Chatroom to Classroom: The Evolution of Blockchain Education

With the creation of Bitcoin and its blockchain, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced an entirely new practical application for cryptography, unearthing an unexplored area for computer science and technological development.

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