Bitcoin and cryptocurrency classroom adoption continues to skyrocket, and Texas A&M is now the latest US university to offer a bitcoin course to some of its more than 74,000 students..
The news was announced on January 13 by Associate Professor Korok Ray of Texas A&M Mays Business School, who will teach 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!
— Korok Ray (@KorokRay) January 12, 2023
I’m teaching the first bitcoin class at Texas A&M this spring!
Ray stated in the 4 part Twitter thread that “Programming Bitcoin” will follow “Bitcoin Protocol”where students will learn to “build a bitcoin library from scratch”.
The teacher added that it was not easy to receive the approval of the competent body of the school’s curricular committeewhich came after “months” of hard work.
It took months to get this class approved, but we made it! Getting Bitcoin into the curriculum is important for the long game.
— Korok Ray (@KorokRay) January 12, 2023
It took us months to pass this class, but we did it! Introducing bitcoin into the curriculum is important in the long run.
According to crypto researcher Josh Cowell, the lack of high-quality cryptocurrency education has been seen as a key obstacle to taking adoption to the next leveland suggested that this can improve financial literacy if done correctly.
Cointelegraph reached out to Ray to ask how many students signed up for the class, but did not immediately receive an answer.
The legal and regulatory implications of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are now also being taught in American universities.
the adjunct professor Thomas Hook of Boston University School of Law recently told Cointelegraph that the law school now offers a course on “Cryptocurrency Regulation” For students interested in learning how crypto-savvy lawyers and cryptocurrency businesses can better navigate through regulatory uncertainties as they seek to bring their products and services to market:
“Their aim is to expose future lawyers to the potential problems they may encounter and the myriad of approaches and regulations that exist in relation to cryptocurrencies. [y] the different [problemas] that cryptocurrency companies around the world can face.”
Other Universities Now Offering Cryptocurrency Courses They are Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, the National University of Singapore, Cornell University, and the University of California Berkeley.
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