Topic: Priceton U. Bitcoin Class - Free! (Read 885 times)

The Princeton University Bitcoin class has started.  https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/home

This is an online version/offshoot of the class they taught last semester: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/nine-awesome-bitcoin-projects-at-princeton/

I am enrolled and I went through chapter 1 and lecture 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOMVZXLjKYo

I would highly recommend this class based on what I have seen so far.  Even if you don't understand the fine points of the math or can't do the programming assignments I would try to take the class anyway. 

Education is the most important thing in the Bitcoin space right now.  the space is being overtaken by groups of cultists and nut jobs both for and against Bitcoin.  On one side you have Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, Stephanie Murphy, Cody Wilson, Theymos, Charlie Shrem, etc. and on the other side you have Neil Palmquist, Buttcoiners, etc.  Those Al Sharpon wannabee agenda-pushers are completely distorting things.  It is like listening to Rush Limbaugh and Al Gore debate global warming.  You may notice when something like the Princeton class shows up these people are nowhere to be found. 

As Bitcoin progresses knowledge will be pushing the "wing nuts" back into the woodwork so don't be left behind.  Things like this class and people like Jerry Brito at Coin Center are what is going to drive mass adoption, not the foaming-at-the-mouth cultists who promote an agenda that has zero chance of acceptance by most people.