Topic: Stanford University Business Full-Time Cryptocurrency Course - page 5. (Read 623 times)

It's a business school and Crypto has a lot that one can learn from when it comes to economics. It's more about teaching the students that aspect of Bitcoins. Not meant to sound mean, but you're looking at it through the eyes of really liking crypto. A little like a fanboy, where, "I find this aspect more important." It's a little like a school was teaching basketball defense, and someone goes, but why not 3 pointers. 3 pointers have become a larger part of the NBA.

This is undirectly tell the universe that cryptocurrency future is more bright. Only how half of countries can accept it. This interesting is not make, their soul really been called.

I want to say with much spirit, happy wake up from the nightmare

I think it is good that Stanford and some of the other Ivy Leagueres are taking a leap forward in establishing the importance of cyrptocurrency.  I understand why they do not offer to teach the technological aspects of it.  I think cryptocurrency as whole is more disruptive than most people would like to admit.  Coding is not that difficult and most teenagers would be better at it because of their age and the flexible mindset that is not set to a fixed paradigm.  Cryptocurrency will change the dynamic of world's economy as we know it.  These colleges are taking steps in the right direction so that current and future business leaders are better prepared once the revolution starts. 

This is excellent for the cryptocurrency world as it may hone students to develop further enhancements and future developments in order to improve the blockchain technology. Offering a degree with business related to cryptocurrency is one way to highlight and spread the knowledge of it to the world. We could say that this is a one-step progress and is a win-win situation among the society and bitcoin itself.
Though one problem that it might face mainly revolves around the government itself. The future of bitcoin is still unlikely and unreliable, as the government might impose rules/regulations prejudicial to its existence.

In the event that countries would declare bitcoin as a contraband, that degree might be useless and immaterial. They must have at least a contingency plan about the possible hindrances it might face.

Merited for that.

Over the last decade, there have been many colleges and universities who have been caught approaching homeless people on the street and signing them up for educational government assistance (aka: "state funded student loans"). This isn't done out of the kindness of their heart, its done to prey upon homeless and saddle them with mountains of debt they could never repay, in order to profit off of additional taxpayer funding under circumstances where those enrolled are very unlikely to learn anything of value which helps them or gives them a better future. There have also been cases where students have enrolled in programs which cost in excess of $50,000 that teach no useful skills and were zero help in students obtaining a job in their chosen career path.

Unfortunately, "higher education" has often devolved into a money making scheme where zero information or skills of value can be learned, while students take on extreme levels of debt proportional to their future projections for wages.

It is possible this "blockchain business course" won't amount to much. It could be a liberal arts equivalent to learning about bitcoin and a complete waste of money. Its always nice to hear about bitcoin and crypto currencies gaining ground and being more widely supported but it might not be an exaggeration to think that maybe ICO scams have their equivalent in higher education, here.

There are many universities selling straight pseudo-scams, I say pseudo-scams because the information contained in the courses, typically masters, are stuff that you could find online for free, so you are just paying to get some accreditation.

I think this trend is a dying one. A high school dropout that is a killer programmer and has a portfolio of plenty of stuff to show related to crypto will find a lot of jobs vs some guy who got teached about crypto stuff in some university. So my advice is, if you can't afford these courses, don't go into debt for that, just learn stuff online and develop it and add it on your cv. I would also look who is teaching on these courses. They must be actual developers, not powerpointers.

Thought so. I suppose people that are already knowledgeable with programming no longer need to study about it? Considering it's Stanford, most of it would probably discuss how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be integrated into the financial sector, like loans/credits for example.

And at last! Another great news! Thanks for sharing this man! It really feels good to see some great news out of all the fud that I mostly see/read every time I scroll down on every section of this forum. This happening is really a big step for this industry because a famous school offering this course will obviously attract other universities as well to do the same. In return, it will cause more curiosity for the people who are doubting this industry or for the ones that haven't heard of it yet. And as more graduates of this course emerge, more countries may even legalize crypto currencies! The possibilities are endless!

I do not know why the Department of Economics/Business will study the Cryptocurrency, although it is a technology closer to the computer and programming.
Personally I do not believe in the role of Cryptocurrency economically and I do not think it will be possible to study or evaluate them based on the laws of economics and business administration(no one can Predicts it).
It is best to teach the Blockchain and the programming languages built on it(how to build tokens/coins, reading source codes and Enhanced protection).

Thats a good step forward but unfortunately I am wondering why the computer field is not taking the part into this program. I mean coding is very much important aspect as compared to the economic studies for now. What I mean is simple fact, if you dont get the developments done in the crypto currencies then you dont get back the full working model for the same. Bitcoin is sensitive matter for now in terms of its scalability issues, mining difficulties and much more. All these things have to be cleared in the long run to catch good economic back bone and then whatever they study afterwards would be very interesting! I mean its really good that at leats they have started with something but for future purpose we need to fill the gaps.

Well that's not only the university of Stanford that's been doing this there are many more institutions that are providing workshops for cryptocurrencies related stuff and giving suitable certificates to the people who are attending it .
That's showing how bitcoins is been accepted both professionally and educationally, Stanford is a big name and I think this will help tighten the grip of cryptocurrencies over the market.

For those interested in studying crypto:

https://www.cryptocurrencyguide.org/stanford-universitys-graduate-school-of-business-full-time-cryptocurrency-course-scheduled-to-begin-next-month/


Because it is being done by the business school, it will probably focus on the ecoomics aspects, as opposed to teh technical coding aspects of cryptocurrency.