Tag: education

On July 11, 2018, Reflective Venture Partners (RVP) announced a partnership with the Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain Group (HUBG) to create fundamental educational materials and applications for the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology sector. Academic Perspective The strategic partnership is a big win for both parties as it helps Harvard undergraduate members improve their understanding of blockchain technology, while providing new opportunities…

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On June 28, 2018, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has revealed that while there are roughly 500,000 residents of the Canadian province who hold crypto, there exist serious information gaps among them regarding essential crypto markets investment determinants such as transparency, volatility, valuation, and liquidity. OSC Survey The information came from a survey launched by the OSC called “Taking Caution:…

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The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) has partnered with IBM to create an online course on blockchain technology. The course is considered the first-of-its-kind and will cover blockchain architecture, design, and uses. India’s Pushes Blockchain Education The course will be available from July 2018, on the NPTEL website. It will cover conceptual and application components of blockchain technology….

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June 22-24, the Amazing Event Machine team, the organizers of the successful offline forums Blockchain Day Russia and the Ukrainian Blockchain Day, organize an international online conference – Blockchain Day Online. Blockchain Day Online is an online platform that unites entrepreneurs, investors, businessmen, developers in the areas of blockchain technology, crypto currency and ICO, for which the main goal is…

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Ripple has announced plans to invest the sum of $50 million into a blockchain research initiative in partnership with highly ranked universities around the world. So far, 17 schools have been confirmed as part of the initiative including The University of North Carolina, The University of Pennsylvania, University College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Korea University, amongst others….

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BTCManager has been following Mathbot for a while now, and we are reposting this Medium entry by Anders Kargaard to raise awareness of Mathbot, which is using bitcoin in a unique way to promote education. We are used to hearing stories about established men from the legacy system telling us how terrible Bitcoin is for the world. The only thing…

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Over the last thousand years, evolution and change have been the only constants, with several ideologies, technologies, and philosophies getting updated and redacted with time. However, an integral part of a person’s life has remained the most unchanged over the years – education – which has only witnessed changes in study material, never in the process itself. Earn as You…

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 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created a scam Initial Coin Offering to teach would-be investors what they should look out for before investing in such projects. The regulator has launched a fake coin offering website dubbed “Howey,” all in the effort of warning investors about fraudulent cryptocurrencies. SEC Launches Howey Coins HoweyCoins.com mimics a bogus coin offering in…

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The Petro flame seems to be burning ever brighter despite the condemnations and criticisms that the Venezuelan national cryptocurrency has faced both locally and internationally since its arrival in February 2018. On May 3, 2018, the nation’s president has revealed that Venezuela is on the verge of establishing a youth bank that will be funded entirely by the oil-backed petro…

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The number of coders who have submitted new code for approval over the last 50 days has risen to 21. Jimmy Song, a partner at Blockchain Capital, has also mooted incentivizing participation to encourage coder numbers to swell on the project. A Few Tutors Making a Big Difference Not known for being challenged by recruitment, Bitcoin’s development has been made…

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