Diplomas and Decentralization
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
- CoinDesk has released a list of the top universities that offer courses on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
- Former president Bill Clinton spoke at Ripple’s Swell conference in San Francisco on Monday. Clinton expressed concern about "disparity of access" to new technologies like blockchain.
- A new marketplace for crypto collectibles offers to sell them in bundles.
- Venture capitalist invested almost four times more in blockchain projects this year.
- CoinDesk researcher Peter Ryan discusses a new report on the top universities in blockchain education.
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| 0:00.0 | Which are the best universities for blockchain studies? We've got a list. |
| 0:06.5 | Good evening. I'm Mark Hoxstein, and this is late confirmation from CoinDesk, bringing you the top stories from October 2nd, 2018. |
| 0:16.8 | President Bill Clinton speaks at Ripple's Swell Conference. |
| 0:21.0 | Crypto-collectables can now be sold in bundles. |
| 0:25.1 | ICOs are down, but venture capital is up. |
| 0:28.2 | And at the end of the show, we'll speak with Coin Desk research analyst Peter Ryan |
| 0:32.6 | about the best universities to study blockchain. |
| 0:39.7 | Options for blockchain education have grown in the past several years. |
| 0:44.4 | CoinDesk has released a list of the top universities that offer courses on blockchain and |
| 0:49.6 | cryptocurrencies. |
| 0:51.2 | Topping the list is Stanford University in California, offering interdisciplinary courses |
| 0:56.5 | like digital currency and cybercrime, and professors like Catherine Hahn, a former federal |
| 1:02.5 | prosecutor and now general partner at Andresen Horowitz, and the economist Susan Athe. |
| 1:08.8 | The only public school on the list, the University of California at Berkeley, |
| 1:13.0 | is one of the best engineering schools in the country and offers some high-level computer science |
| 1:17.8 | courses on blockchain, as well as interdisciplinary courses and blockchain-related clubs. |
| 1:24.1 | New York University was one of the first schools to offer a blockchain-related course. |
| 1:29.3 | Now the school has such courses as digital currencies, blockchains, and the future of financial services, |
| 1:35.5 | and applications in entrepreneurial finance, fintech. |
| 1:39.8 | NYU also held the first university-supported Bitcoin Hackathon back in 2014. |
| 1:46.0 | MIT isn't missing the wave either. It offers courses for developers, like cryptocurrency |
| 1:52.0 | engineering and design, taught by the former CTO of Lightning Labs, Tadz Drya, and Nihon |
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