The adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency courses in the classroom continues to skyrocket, and Texas A&M University is now the latest US university to offer Bitcoin courses to some of its 74,000+ students.
The news was announced on January 13 by Colock Ray, associate professor at Texas A&M’s Mays School of Business. Colockley plans to teach the “Bitcoin Protocol” course to engineering and Mays Business School students when the spring semester begins his January 13th. 17.
This spring I will be teaching the first-ever Bitcoin class at Texas A&M!
— Korok Ray (@KorokRay) January 12, 2023
In a four-part Twitter thread, Ray said that “programming Bitcoin” will follow the Bitcoin protocol and that students will learn to “build a Bitcoin library from scratch.”
The professor added that getting approval from the school’s relevant curriculum committee is no easy task.
It took months for this class to be approved, but it was a success! Incorporating Bitcoin into the curriculum is important for the long game.
— Korok Ray (@KorokRay) January 12, 2023
According to cryptocurrency researcher Josh Cowell, the lack of quality cryptocurrency education is cited as a major obstacle to taking adoption to the next level.
Cointelegraph reached out to Ray to ask how many students had enrolled in the class, but received no immediate response.
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The legal and regulatory implications of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are now taught at US universities as well.
Boston University Law School Adjunct Professor Thomas Hook recently told Cointelegraph that law schools are now learning how crypto-savvy lawyers and crypto companies can navigate regulatory uncertainty. He said he offers a “cryptocurrency regulation” course for students who want to learn. Products and services to market:
“This is intended to shed light on the potential issues future attorneys may encounter, as well as the myriad of approaches and regulations related to cryptocurrencies. [and] Wrong [issues] That is what cryptocurrency companies can face all over the world. “
Other universities currently offering cryptocurrency courses include Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, Cornell University, and University of California, Berkeley.
