The trend is unstoppable! Digital currency courses are introduced to many well-known universities around the world

Baozou Commentary : In today's world, technology is developing rapidly, and digital currency is quietly entering our lives. Correspondingly, major universities around the world have also begun to offer digital currency courses to meet talent needs. Many top universities in the world, including Tsinghua University in China, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and Stanford University in the United States, have already opened digital currency courses, and some schools have already begun to use digital currency.

Author: Cathy

With the development of information technology, the development of digital currency is advancing by leaps and bounds. In order to meet the social demand for digital currency talents, many universities at home and abroad have opened digital currency courses!

Several universities, including Tsinghua University, have set up digital currency courses to educate and attract future entrepreneurs. This also indicates that digital currency has begun to truly integrate into our daily lives. Imagine that when you go to school, your teacher gives you an assignment: write an article about the development of cryptocurrency. Do you instantly feel that you are 18 blocks ahead of others?

Let’s take a look at the world’s top schools and how they offer digital currency courses and apply digital currency:

The first university to offer a master's degree in digital currency and accept digital currency tuition fees - University of Nicosia

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) is the largest independent university in Cyprus and one of the largest English-language universities in Southern Europe. The university has announced that it has become the first university in the world to accept digital currency as payment for tuition fees, as well as the first university to offer a master's degree in digital currency. The University of Nicosia accepts Bitcoin for all courses, not just those in the digital currency master's program.

The free digital currency course “Introduction to Digital Currency” is taught in English by Bitcoin experts from the fields of computer science and finance and professors from the University of Nicosia. Also teaching the course is Bitcoin expert Andreas

Antonopoulos said that students who take the course will also need to complete relevant exercises and assessment tasks after the course. The course will not only be offered to students on campus, but will also be taught online.

The university has designed the course for financiers, business people, entrepreneurs and public managers who want to learn more about the basics of digital currency, how it interacts with the existing monetary system, and the opportunities for innovation in the digital currency system. After the free introductory course, the entire graduate program includes 9 required and elective courses. It will cost $16,250.

The first public university to accept cryptocurrency tuition fees — University of Cumbria in England

The University of Cumbria in Lancaster, northern England, announced that it would accept digital currency as tuition fees, becoming the first public university in the world to accept digital currency as payment for tuition fees. On February 16, 2015, the university announced the launch of a free online master's course that will focus on the future of digital currency, and hundreds of students signed up to participate.

The month-long "Money and Society" MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) will be aimed at "money innovators and activists of any political persuasion" and will delve into "the nature of money, how it has been interpreted and why it has been misunderstood over the past three thousand years." Among other things, the course will seek to address "the dangerous assumption prevalent in the Bitcoin community that money is best understood as an asset with its own value." The course's designer, Professor Jem Bendell, believes that money is a process, not a thing, and that we can explore and design innovations to use money as a productive community service tool.

Giving digital currency to students—Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States has a more "direct and crude" approach to studying digital currency. At the end of April 2014, MIT launched a digital currency airdrop plan worth $500,000. At the end of October of the same year, each undergraduate student at MIT received digital currency worth $100 for free. According to the organizer, these funds were distributed to more than 4,500 undergraduate students at MIT to promote digital currency academic and entrepreneurial atmosphere on campus.

MIT students who receive digital currency can use these free digital currencies on campus. The school's bookstore accepts digital currency to pay for textbooks, school supplies, and MIT-branded merchandise.

MIT will join other universities in bringing bitcoin to the classroom. The course will be available to all MIT students and cross-registered students in the Boston area. David Shrier, a lecturer at the Media Lab and one of the people behind the initiative, said the course will cover topics ranging from e-commerce to market systems. The course, which is also supported by several Bitcoin Core developers, will also offer a "high-level technical" course around blockchain.

Law School, Business School Join Forces to Create Digital Currency Course — New York University

Geoffrey Miller, a professor of law at New York University School of Law, and David Yermack, a professor of finance at Stern School of Business, jointly opened a graduate course, "Law and Business Related to Digital Currency and Other Cryptocurrencies". The purpose is to evaluate the value of digital currency and its impact on the economy. Yermack said that this course first examines the impact of digital currency on current laws and financial concepts. The course talks more about the questions brought about by the rapid changes in industry, finance and contracts in this century. The course will cover topics such as digital currency money laundering and tracking digital currency transactions. At the same time, it will also discuss whether digital currency should be classified as currency. This course will help the listeners portray a new international political and financial environment in the future under a digital currency system.

The first digital currency textbook was launched at the same time as the course was opened - Princeton University

Princeton University is a world-renowned elite institution that implements elite education. Its strong academic atmosphere and unique aristocratic temperament are unique in the world. Since mid-2015, the famous Princeton University has begun to offer free online courses on Bitcoin and encrypted digital currency technology as a response to the growing interest of banks and financial institutions in Bitcoin blockchain technology.

In addition to offering digital currency courses, Princeton has also released a textbook on Bitcoin, called "Bitcoin and Digital Currency Technology". This is a book about Bitcoin and its technology that anyone can easily understand. Professors and students from Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Maryland worked together to complete this book. Readers range from students to technology entrepreneurs, researchers to software developers, and they will all learn from this book. The basics of the concept, and you can integrate Bitcoin ideas into your own projects.

"Innovation, Disruption, and Crypto Adventure" — Duke University

Duke University's digital currency course follows that of New York University. Titled "Innovation, Disruption, and Crypto Adventures," the course focuses on the commercial potential of blockchain technology. The course is offered to students at Duke University's School of Computer Science and School of Law and Business. Coinbase co-founder Campbell Harvey graduated from Duke University in 2010.

Providing credits and setting up funds for digital currencies - Imperial College London, Europe

Imperial College London, one of Europe's leading engineering universities, and EF (Entrepreneurs' Organization) have jointly announced a partnership to provide credits for digital currency-related courses and set up a fund to reward students who have made outstanding achievements in Bitcoin-related projects.

The best projects will receive a scholarship of 3,000 pounds, and the project equipment required by students can also be paid from the fund, up to 500 pounds, in addition to other aspects of support and course guidance. How about it, is the treatment very attractive, are you tempted?

Draper University is the first educational institution to accept digital currency as payment for tuition

Draper University is a Silicon Valley-based school that provides education and training services for entrepreneurs. The school began offering free online digital currency courses to students on October 22, 2014, and is also the first educational institution to accept digital currency as payment for tuition. The course is divided into seven parts and aims to provide the basics of Bitcoin. It covers several topics, including protocols, different innovations occurring within the ecosystem, and provides a comprehensive and accessible course for a wider audience in terms of technology. At the same time, the course will maximize the use of the digital currency professional network ZapChain to teach students. Adhering to the concept of "digital currency is around us", we hope to encourage students to innovate and use digital currency.

In addition to traditional lectures, the course also features interviews with experts that address topics such as Bitcoin mining, the future of cryptocurrencies, and global industry prospects and business opportunities.

The Most Prestigious School in the US Accepts Cryptocurrency Tuition — Stanford University

Stanford University, which was founded in 1885 and has been ranked among the top five universities in the United States, only accepted 5.7% of applicants. Although it is not the first time, it is the most prestigious school in the United States that accepts digital currency tuition.

Stanford University's new course is called "Cryptocurrency: Digital Currency and Friends," and the course is taught by Dan Boneh, a computer science professor and expert in cryptography. He supports the technology of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as an indispensable tool for protecting information. The course was launched on September 21, 2015. In addition to Stanford students, professionals can obtain a graduate certificate in cybersecurity after completing the course.

While joining the workshop is free, the remaining course tuition is $3,960 (Stanford members receive a $600 discount). To earn the certificate, you need to complete four modules in total, which will cost you between $13,440 and $18,480.

University of Columbia - First UK University to Offer Bitcoin Courses

Located in Lancaster, England, the University of Cumbria was formed in 2007 by merging the various Cumbria campuses of Central Lancashire University, Central Saint Martins College, and Cumbria College of Arts. It is the newest university in the UK. It is also the first UK university to offer Bitcoin courses.

Digital currency courses come to China—Tsinghua University, China

Tsinghua University will offer a credit course in the September semester for freshmen: Cognitive Foundations Beyond Disciplines. The course will comprehensively explain the principles of blockchain, with the quantum mechanics and blockchain sections taught by a Tsinghua PhD teacher. He said: “Tsinghua University’s credit course

The course design goal of "Beyond the Cognitive Foundation of Disciplines" is to help students establish a distributed holistic worldview. The syllabus will cover quantum non-local ontology and path integral methods, mathematical category theory, computer system theory and distributed legal architecture. Blockchain will be systematically explained as the most cutting-edge innovative application of the distributed holistic worldview. "The lecture team includes a combination of well-known scholars from Tsinghua University and Peking University, including Professor Cai Weide, a Yangtze River Scholar."

There is no doubt that digital currency and blockchain technology are and will continue to bring disruptive changes to our lives. As more and more companies and institutions begin to use blockchain technology, the demand for professional researchers is increasing in order to keep up with today's rapidly changing financial world. Many universities attach great importance to this and have added digital currency courses to their syllabus. I believe that in China, more and more institutions of higher learning will introduce digital currency into campuses and classrooms in the future, and digital currency will enter the lives of more people!