Knowledge is power, particularly in the Information Age, where an understanding of ‘the new’ can provide an edge over the competition.
In other words, increasingly profit-oriented universities are seeking to capitalize on the crypto-rush by offering the public nontechnical courses on cryptocurrencies.
And what’s interesting about such growth is that it’s being driven, to a large extent, by the students themselves, who in some cases are pushing their universities to include modules, courses and lectures on crypto in their programs.
Similarly, universities and professors themselves recognize the growing public demand for crypto courses, a demand that’s been heightened by the price movements that cryptocurrencies have enjoyed in recent months.
Available online and worldwide, the program includes lectures on banking, regulation, blockchain applications, financial markets and digital currency programming.
South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
On January 3, 2020, the Bitcoin network officially turns 11 and the technology has transformed the lives of many. Since blockchain’s inception, scholars and economists have rigorously studied and written thousands of academic papers covering the subject.
As digital currencies transform the world, concepts like Bitcoin continue to percolate into academic courses and higher education worldwide. The French Ministry of National Education’s recently published economics and social sciences resource guide for teachers discusses cryptographic money like Bitcoin.
