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University of Wyoming Launches Bitcoin Research Institute to Produce High-Quality Publications

July 31, 2024

The University of Wyoming has launched a Bitcoin research institute to produce high-quality peer-reviewed publications about bitcoin from all academic disciplines. The institute’s director highlighted the need for informed research, criticizing previous work for its lack of fundamental understanding of bitcoin. University of Wyoming Launches Bitcoin Research Institute The University of Wyoming (UW) has launched…
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Gary Gensler links crypto with cash in viral 2018 video — Crypto Twitter reacts

April 26, 2023

The 2018 MIT professor Gary Gensler didn’t think most ICOs triggered U.S. securities laws. The crypto community is calling out the hypocrisy of Gary Gensler, the head of the United States securities regulator, after a 2018 video emerged of him stating that cryptocurrencies are on par with commodities or cash and are not securities. The…
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Nanjing University Sets Up One of the First Metaverse Majors in China

September 27, 2022

Nanjing University in China has reportedly launched one of the first majors in the country dedicated to the study of metaverse-related knowledge. The university, located in eastern China, stated that this new push is directed to impart new metaverse-related courses that will help more students to fulfill the needs of metaverse companies. Nanjing University…
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64% of US blockchain-versed parents want crypto taught in schools: Survey

August 24, 2022

Crypto educated American moms and dads are already sinking an average of $766 into extra-curricular crypto education for their kids, according to the survey. Over two-thirds of U.S. parents and college graduates with an understanding or involvement in crypto believe that crypto should be taught in schools in order for students to “learn about the…
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Russian Blockchain Alternative to SWIFT to Prevent Disconnection of Nations, Banks

July 13, 2022

A Russian university is ready to test its blockchain-based analogue to the global payment messaging network SWIFT, from which Russian banks were cut off as part of Western sanctions. The developers say their system would not allow the disconnecting of countries and banks. Russian Developers Create SWIFT Substitute Using Blockchain Experts from the Competence Center…
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TZ APAC’s Colin Miles: Blockchain will be taught in classrooms in 3-5 years

May 13, 2022

TZ APAC’s Colin Miles says that a new partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS)’s School of Computing will help students learn about Tezos and blockchain. Colin Miles, the newly-appointed CEO of TZ APAC expects blockchain and web 3.0 curricula to start becoming an integral part of secondary and tertiary education within the next…
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Officials Attend First Lecture on NFTs at Major Turkish University

February 25, 2022

Ankara University has become the first higher education institution in Turkey to organize a course on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The freshly-launched lecture has been attended by high-ranking government officials, local media reported. Leading University in Turkey Begins Course on NFTs Ankara University has added a course on NFTs to its curriculum, becoming the first Turkish…
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Universities including Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Oxford to form EduDAO to promote Web 3.0 innovations, financed by BitDAO treasury

December 16, 2021

The funds from EduDAO will be used for research, education and entrepreneurship in Web 3.0 technologies among the world’s top universities. On Thursday, BitDAO, one of the world’s largest decentralized autonomous organizations with over $2.5 billion assets under management and its partner Mirana Ventures, announced the creation of EduDAO with eight of the world’s top…
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Hunan’s Government Has Chosen a Company to Build New Blockchain Infrastructure for the Region

August 21, 2020

A local government in China has endorsed a public blockchain infrastructure project. Conflux Network, a permissionless blockchain project, announced that it has been endorsed by government officials from the Chinese province of Hunan on Aug. 19. The company was previously endorsed by the Shanghai Municipal Government for similar reasons. Hunan province, located in south central…
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Ripple Funds Blockchain’s Disruption of the Legal Industry

April 5, 2020

Cointelegraph spoke to Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative to find out about Australian law school’s new blockchain course. A new blockchain course offered by the Australian National University (ANU)’s law school commenced this year with support from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). Cointelegraph spoke to Lauren Weymouth, the senior manager of the UBRI’s University…
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