Hello, I am in the IT department at a college campus. I have been trying to get permission to run a full bitcoin node on campus using our wealth of resources. It has turned out to be harder than I thought. The main problem is how to justify using the college's resources to help Bitcoin. I was wondering if anyone had some good ideas of how to pitch this. I would like to create some sort of unified argument that all colleges and universities could use to present to the "higher ups" in order to gain permission to run a full bitcoin node. Any help would be appreciated.
I bolded your main problem above. As others have already pointed out, you first need to rethink what you are doing and why. I think the better question would be "how to justify using your college's resources alongside Bitcoin to help your college."
As suggested by others, your best course of action would be to get the assistance of either a computer science professor, or perhaps an economics professor, to help justify why your college should begin investigating bitcoin. I think pursuing it from an educational angle would make the most sense, however I suppose you could also try to convince them that they could use it to accept donations, or even perhaps tuition payments, although the later suggestions probably wouldn't fly as well as the first.
There are already several colleges teaching about bitcoin, and more specifically the block-chain technology. You may want to emphasis the block-chain in any presentations, and simply refer to Bitcoin as an example of this technology rather than be the main focus.
