American College Teaches Students Crypto Currencies
2023.01.15 08:27
American College Teaches Students Crypto Currencies
By Tiffany Smith
Budrigannews.com – Texas A&M is the latest U.S. college to offer a Bitcoin course to some of its more than 74,000 students. Classroom adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency courses continues to soar.
Associate Professor Korok Ray of Texas A&M’s Mays Business School made the announcement on January 13. He will be instructing the “Bitcoin Protocol” course to students in the College of Engineering and Mays Business School when the Spring Semester begins on January 17.
I will be teaching the first ever Bitcoin class at Texas A&M this spring!
In the four-part Twitter thread, Ray stated that students will learn to “build a Bitcoin library from scratch” in “Programming Bitcoin,” which will follow the Bitcoin Protocol.
The professor went on to say that getting approval from the relevant curriculum committee body of the school, which came after “months” of hard work, was no easy task.
“The approval of this class took months, but we succeeded! For the long run, including Bitcoin in the curriculum is crucial.”
According to crypto researcher Josh Cowell, who suggested that it can improve one’s financial literacy if done correctly, the lack of high-quality crypto education has been dubbed as a key roadblock in taking adoption to the next level.
Additionally, U.S. colleges are now teaching about the legal and regulatory implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
Cointelegraph was recently informed by Adjunct Professor Thomas Hook of the University of Boston Law School that the school now offers a course called “Crypto Regulation” for students who are interested in learning how crypto-versed lawyers and crypto companies can best navigate through regulatory uncertainties as they attempt to bring their products and services to market:
Its purpose is “to expose future lawyers to the potential issues they may see, the myriad of approaches and regulations that exist as it pertains to cryptocurrency, and the various issues crypto companies may face worldwide.”
Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, the National University of Singapore, Cornell University, and the University of California, Berkeley are some of the other universities that currently offer cryptocurrency courses.
