Topic: Stanford University Business Full-Time Cryptocurrency Course (Read 648 times)

Courses are also just a summary of the past years of the market. Every statement is just conjecture and the direction is safe. In fact, every market activity changes every day. That knowledge must also change over time. In my opinion, if you want the best track, we need to design a monitoring tool to help investors determine the market. There will be a chance to reach your goal.

It will be really helpful for those who are starting up new and still yet to know the very things that has to do with Bitcoin. As for me, if I’m to study anything that has to do with Bitcoin, it wouldn’t be the economic, but the coding aspect of it, cause that’s the side that seems to be much important to me than the other. Despite that, I still have to say that this is quite a good move and will help lots of starters that are interested in cryptocurrency.

My point is that the cryptocurrency courses are not necessary for the students. Everyone has laptops and internet. So students can get more knowledge about cryptocurrency on google than cryptocurrency knowledge in college.

But whe we are going to have that someday because already the crypto currencies getting into a part of the world economy so the younger generation need to get ready for that in early stages.Hopefully the technology behind the crypto currencies will be teach by the school itself then only all people will get to know about it.

That may be true but it also depends on the succession of the cryptocurrencies in the days and months that'll go by. But if ever in the future it will be adapted, yes it would be a good thing to take a step forward in the future and let schools or universities give courses about economics and education about the crypto community.

In the future we are going to see more things in the future and we will witness a lot of universities and school that will going to make a course about cryptocurrency so they can compete with the other school in terms of knowledge and education about cryptocurrency. This is the future and every school should take a step toward to it.

That is a good thing to read about the future technology early on then they can be an experts when the technology adopted by the common people.But the crypto currency courses were rarely available and in my countiy there is no uiversity offering such courses so every iniversity need to understand the importance of crypto in future and start teaching them to the people.

Stanford is not the first institution to include a course on cryptocurrency. There are quite a few more out there including it now into their catalogs. This is a reflection on the university's view on cryptocurrency and what it could do for the future of the economy. It will help students better understand it.

Change it is almost inevitable and we are either left behind or we adapt to it since we are here it is obvious we are going to be part of the revolution that cryptocurrencies will bring to the world, but there are many people that think they can avoid it and they are going to find out the hard way there is no escaping this revolution just like what happened with the internet.

It's great that this course is provided by a highly reputable university, when people learn how much money can be made here by early adopters the FOMO factor will get all their students to invest

This is a good example of advertising and popularization of cryptocurrencies. To date, not many people know about cryptocurrencies and even less know about how they are arranged, how they work and what a blockchain is. Therefore, such innovations are useful for all cryptocurrencies in general and for increasing the cryptocurrency community. Knowledge is the engine of progress.

I heard even Harvard has such course. And damn,wish I ever had a chance to pursue a career/study a course related to crypto. For those who are living in the US,if you ever get a chance to learn from any of the crypto courses. Don't miss out on it. For all you know,it maybe the best thing that ever happened to you in your life.

When top universities start to take cryptocurrencies seriously more investors will begin to take a liking to the entire cryptocurrency concept and digital currency movement. Standford university is one of the top universities in the world and their good stance to add courses in cryptocurrencies will go a long way to attract more people to join the crypto movement. But students should not only be limited to classroom work on cryptos; there are more experience in the field.

Yeah, most of the esteemed universities all over the world and some other well-known universities already have blockchain and cryptocurrency related courses and programs in their curriculum. This is an area that is needed mostly now considering how a lot of people are trying to get their knowledge filled in this aspect of the future where it would be an edge for them. Once you see the future in sight, see how you can get the best out of it. Nice one though!

Higher education finally decided to keep up with the times . Now a lot of information, but it is scattered and sometimes unreliable. Perhaps universities of this level will be able to outsmart and theorize the blockchain

yes i must agree, are they planning to study how to have a forecast on the bitcoin price? if so, that would be so useful to anyone who wanted to learn the science of cryptocurrencies. but i think anyone who knows trading can benefit from those courses, as for newbies, that is certainly a big help to them.

This is really a good one for the whole community at large as we can see all over the world that this is already being accepted as the future and the next stage of evolution in all sectors of the society. I believe they are not the first and I am sure they would not be the last. This is a spot to reckon with as there would be a lot of knowledge to gain from it for those who would want to be the part of the future anyway, so I believe it is just a start.

As expected, academic side development of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are happening which will definitely spread awareness on various aspects of cryptocurrencies. Maybe these will push cryptos toward main stream adoption somehow.

And being a parents i am glad that this is now opened for our childrens future and given them opportunities to learn this technology formally and decently,since we must accept that in our part we just learned this personally though most of us had some friends told and teaching them this community,but with university now i am sure my childrens has a brighter tomorrow now..

Though if given a chance i am willing to enroll too together with my son so we both learn everything that we must need to learn..how brighter the future now

I hope that some of the universities in my country will do the same thing like what the Standford University did to the cryptocurrency, they accepted it and they made a course for the cryptocurrency which is a complete opportunity for the people who want to explore the cryptocurrency world and who want to take advantage of this growing industry.

Indeed, cryptocurrency right now become more popular and studied in stanford in another achievment. Maybe its because cryptomarket have good potential in the future and thats make stanford give a courses.

This only means that how serious US universities about the future of cryptocurrency,they really believe that this is the next generations currency and i love thinking about that.in this point all of us have a one piece of trust for american people in continuing support for what is our future in this community..goodluck to all of us and may we all achieved what we wanted too

Because it's  either we like  it or not the world is shifting towards digital world and the currency system will  become a cryptocurrency that's why some  University will already shifting towards the study of cryptocurrency and the technology behind it in order to prepare our youth to be totally understood  about crypto currency.

Wow! I would deffinately love to take one of those! That I suppose would be a great start in my crypto carrier world.

This interesting and a great development, I really think that bitcoin is going to be similar to the Internet the ones that are going to adopt it are the young people, that doesn't mean that older people are not going to adopt it is just going to take a lot more time and it is possible they never get used to it, so we need to get to the young and a good place are universities.

This is great move for cryptocurrency.I will really love to take a degree program in cryptocurrency.This will help to popularize cryptocurrency worldwide because it will enlighten people more about the untapped riches on the blockchain that will make things easier to the wide-use and acceptance of cryptocurrency.

Another great victory for the bitcoiners. Now traffic will increase than ever in blockchain directly and law would get imposed

This is just great. The more people understand crypto, its technology and its use, the more people will learn to accept it and will embrace it in their lives. Its just a matter of time that we teach this in school like business or mathematics perhaps. The technology behind bitcoins and crypto is just amazing. Teaching them in school will only promote it more to people.

That is a good step forward as 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.

This should prove more and more that cryptocurrency is more legitimate than everyone tries to preach.  This shit isn't going away, and it's only going to get more dominant.  Adapt or get left behind.

Waoww what an incredible step, as i heard,in Turkey, a few university will add blockchain to their annual education programme.

If you do not like crypto, then why are you here ? By not liking crypto, are you referring to cryptography in all, or are you referring to cryptocurrency as a whole ? Just pulling your legs though !
I feel this is a good move for any institution considering the way there would be a lot of options for those who really want to be a part of this system and for the fact that there would be so many enthusiasts looking forward to getting the full gist and how it can be applied to so many other things.

Yeah, there is really no small one and by the way, it is what the university can offer that would be on board right ?

Nevertheless, every aspect of blockchain application is necessary and none can actually be overlooked. It does not necessarily have to be the coding or scientific part of it. One thing is all these knowledge and people trying to gain them will be highly useful in the long run and this would give them an edge in a world that is changing. Also, a lot of universities are already offering series of program with respect to blockchain technology not just Stanford.

I believe that most of the schools that teaches about bitcoin is in business school since the application of cryptocurrency is mostly in this section. While thr blockchain part is in thr IT schools becausw this is the technical part of cryptocurrency wherein the way this technology is programmed affects all of its dependents specially the platform itself.

I do believe that cryptocurrency will affect in bussiness future. For example, with smart contract on ethereum network, establish company can publish bonds with token form. Beside that, right now many utility token in market and i am believe utility token will have part in bussiness in the future

Indeed, even the littlest advance is valuable in long run, at that point why you are under-assessing this progression. Additionally, after perusing the news one finds that Stanford University as well as numerous different colleges are planing to present digital currency courses. I think this will give a brag to the economy of crypto showcase as new clients will join and get mindful of different advantages gave by cryptographic money.

This is actually good news - after graduating and improving their qualifications, graduates will be able to do a lot of useful for the crypto industry.

If this is real then this is really good. There will be more people who'll study and focus on cryptocurrency more with undivided attention. Hoping this will help the community to strengthen the crypto world.

Even the smallest step is useful in long run, then why you are under-estimating this step. Also, upon reading the news one finds that not only Stanford University but many other universities are planing to introduce crypto currency courses. I think this will give a boast to the economy of crypto market as new users will join and get aware of various benefits provided by crypto currency.

Cambridge University have also acquired blockchain technology courses. It means that many college/universities all over the world are now accepting blockchain technology as part of their curriculum. I hope that my country will also integrate these courses in my field specially in business and financial management. It is good if the study in blockchain technology will become a minor subjecy in all colleges in the world.

It was a very good thing to here that there are a lot of people who are interested on earning cryptocurrency today and because of that, there are even work from unversities regarding cryptocurrency.

Well I don't like crypto but when comes to the issue of its education by the esteemed Stanford, there can be no question or doubts

That's a cool news really, because btcs expansion is always in the non technical base which is remedied with name Stanford

I haven't seen this in other popular media outlets. They are probably be teaching the economic side of cryptocurrency as the term itself refer to something of "economic study". Well, about the technical aspect, it is being taught in computer science or computer engineering course since it deals more on computing and cryptography in computers. Cryptocurrency is just one form of application that can be built with blockchain. Think of Blockchain as Windows OS, and think of Cryptocurrency as MS Office. In short, Blockchain is the operating system and Cryptocurrency such as bitcoin is a software application. And please note, not all in the CMC are cryptocurrency, some of them are tokens, just happened to have a monetary value. It's like potato, you can use the potato to have fries, but you can't buy the potato without spending something with monetary value, therefore potato has monetary value.

Let me bring in the economic thing in between. You see everything was based upon blockchain and computers until bitcoin has been seen as a currency. When it is being seen as currency people transact with it in daily usage and even invest in it too. When people invest in it its obvious that it has some economic sentiments attached to it apart from the simple craze of technology. They want a good return on their money. Here is when economy comes in. It gets applied automatically where something related with the economic sentiments which is the want of the people with limited resources in present. That is why such university is teaching this course. They want to understand that how bitcoin and crypto could fit into the regular financial and economic scenario.

That is the part that will be thought but some discussion would touch the narrative part about how it works and the technology behind it but not coding. I have come to realize that all the part that make a difference are not taught in the classroom. The people that even shaped the world we live in even dropped out of school while some we don't even know if they go to school. But its all good that they are learning it at least its giving popularity to what is being discussed at the moment. The fear is that eventually when they graduate, they become policy makers that would then determine what is being done in the industry that's the irony we have to live with.

This is indeed a great news for all the community members as Stanford university is not a common name but most popular name among teenagers and students globally.I think there are some institutions spreading awareness about cryptocurrencies to students boosting the growth oppurtunities of the market giving technical and theoritical knowledge of blockchain technology.This is a very good step advances in this digital feild by educational instituitons which will make this crypto market more famous.

It is a good thing seeing cryptocurrency slowly getting implemented in many fields and going as far as teaching it in university as it is indeed a very interesting case to look at and research, but what i don't get is why it is being apart of an economic course, from what i know cryptocurrency is a highly unpredictable market and it does not move according to fixed principles like the stocks or the other currency market, so what they may be teaching today may not be valid in the future.

That is an amazing news. I am sure a lot budding managers would want to excel themselves in the most promising technology of today's world. If I were a manager, I would have definitely enrolled into the course. I have one question though, what would be the credibility of the professors since everyone is new to this world.

I believe this became a possibility because of the online courses being offered by some online program of a school, which now I don't remember. Obviously cryptocurrency as a subject will be included as a elective class as a lot of students are interested in it , it is inevitable to have one. Just like how Korea have their own college for Pro Gaming athletes/students as a whole program. Universities right now are identifying what is being talk about and what is greatly affecting people's lives and Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology is one of them.

Highly appreciable steps. Take a bow Stanford. And I can assure after my graduation, I will definitely go for stanford

Sounds interesting, wondering why I wasn't aware of this. Good to see that educational institutes have taken cryptocurrency seriously. Young age will be encouraged to study in crypto related subject. I'm interested to take a course if possible just to know how things are being done. Anyway, thanks to OP.

They will probably focus on its economic aspect but lots of universities cover cryptocurrencies in related courses. It is far away from being an independent field of study for now.

The government is not doing this, it is a university, besides we do not need the support of the government, we do not need them to develop anything so you seem to have the wrong idea but governments they do not develop anything, they are not creators of wealth or technology they are consumers of wealth and technology, all those gadgets that you see that the government has it's not because they have developed those things, they just use the money that they tax you in order to pay private companies to create stuff for them.

This is just a proof that cryptocurrency is here to stay. Some schools and universities are already offering courses about it so they wanted the people to know that there is a future with cryptourrencies and its role is important in the society. I hope it would be offered as well to other countries because people should be aware about it and not just base their judgments through mainstream media who are most likely bias about their news. If this course is offered then more parents would trust crypto because they would think that schools and universities would not offer it if it is just fraud or they cannot benefit from it.

Well its great, at least the government is kind of support blockchain and crypto, but in my opinion I think they should be more focus on the technical things, blockchain and btc still need a further development, when all infrastructure of crypto is finished, it wont be too difficult for people to used it for business, for now blockchain and crypto still can't be used for mass adoption, so technical development is more important

Its good to know that a big and famous university like Stanford is acknowledging cryptocurrency. Studying crypto in school aside from economics and business can help us be successful in our venture here. Maybe there are also schools in other countries who are offering same as Stanford.

It's great that a university has now come up with a course on cryptocurrency. There was said to be other courses made available in various other universities. Some may think that the course is more suitable to be put in the computer studies department because it's more concerned on coding and programming. What other people and crypto-users alike don't realize is that there's also a business and economic aspect to cryptocurrencies. It's worthwhile to be discussed by the academe and hopefully this would lead to better studies on crypto and Bitcoin.

The application of blockchain is more and more widely studied. In the future, many universities will set up blockchain major!

Digital cryptographic currency is the product of block chain, in order to maintain the funds needed for the block!

Maybe a lot of universities will invest in digital cryptographic currency, but ignore the research of block chain technology!

A course regarding cryptocurrency. So nice. This is a good sign that bitcoin is starting to be widely accepted. However, it will be under the Economics/Business Department. So this means that the focus would be on its impacts on economy, its rise and fall in price, the factors affecting fluctuations, and probably how to prevent those negatively affecting bitcoin. There's nothing wrong with that at all. Its just that, like others opinion, it would be much better if it will also be under the technological aspect, like programming, coding, and other computer related field because first and foremost, that is the backbone of cryptocurrency. But with that said, it's still a good thing.

Now's the time for education for cryptos aside from the awareness it is getting lately. People are aware and know it, but not all are truly educated to it causing them to ignore these kinds of technological entities. I'm quite surprised that Japan didn't implement these or are they really aware of how these cryptos are now affecting them or it is already adopted that big in their country and education isn't really that needed anymore.

At zhejiang university in China, the block chain course will also be carried out, and the computer science and technology institute has established the block chain research center.

But students are not encouraged to invest in digital encryption money!

This is one of the best news that we have on this forum. As you have said, these are reputed universities and colleges over the world and whatever they have devised for their students related syllabus and activities that comes after big research and industrial demand. Bitcoins are amazing too and they might got the intense need of time for the bitcoins to be taught to students.

All of those schools and stuff are happening somewhere overboard. I didn't hear nothing like this inside of my country (Serbia). Well, that fact that crypto got involved into educational process means that crypto currencies and everything about it were admitted as payment tool or progressive technology which is entering our life to stay for long.

Well bitcoin is a currency, and while bitcoin was created using code instead of mining the earth or by printing, the function of bitcoin is supposed to compete against those two forms of currency, so to me it makes sense that we analyzed it from that point of view, maybe bitcoin is never going to realize some of our wildest dreams of becoming the currency of the world, but I have no doubt that it's going to become relevant in the future and it is important that is studied from that point of view as well so we understand better the ramifications of a currency like bitcoin.

I can’t imagine cryptocurrency will die, and if you look at this scenerario why it is being offered in a University is really interesting. I know this is just a preparation for a brighter future of cryptocurrency and if this is true for sure many people enrol on that course because they see a big potential on this kind of market.

Wow. Just wow. I would have never even thought of this happening in a small business school 2 years ago, let alone in Stanford University.

I'm unsure of what the content is going to be about, but obviously it's going to be circling around economics. The more people that can fully understand the economic implications of bitcoin, the better. Bitcoin is really going mainstream in recent days with so many institutions starting to look at bitcoin seriously, including schools it seems.


It would be pointless for bitcoin to exist if there wasn't economic benefits to it. So you're wrong on that for sure.

What, lol. That is utter nonsense. 

Indeed, the scams in the education field is almost as high as the ICO field unfortunately, but some are legit, for example, this blockchain programing course directed by Jimmy Song:

http://programmingblockchain.com/

The contents seem very on-point and technical, so basically very useful stuff in there:



Probably overpriced for a 2 day course, but assuming you have some notions, it would be 2 very productive days. If you cannot afford it, just look at the contents on that course and search stuff for free related to these sections on the net.

It is good news for the people who living in U.S .As you told 50 people are in waiting list.Then they have to wait for the next university start studies about this crypto currency or wait to join for the next batch in same university.All this happen by the growth of bitcoin.This will increase the price of bitcoin ofcourse and the investors in crypto currency.

Stanford university business full time cryptocurrency course is an easy and economic way to learn more about the technology and the tricks to use upon entering the market. This is like any other online course offered by edX or coursera and in my opinion; every one who thinks of going for this business should enroll in the courses. The more people know about the advantages of the technology, the more they invest and the more the prices will rise.

Great, it always is good to see new programs come up to educate people about bitcoin.

I agree with your statement that it's more likely going to be about the economic aspects rather than the technical side of bitcoin. Still though, it will be extremely beneficial if they are able to give an unbiased assessment of the breakdown of a decentralized payment system, such like bitcoin, brings to the table.


Yep. You don't need to take a full time course to become an expert at crypto or even start investing. But this university offering BTC just shows how BTC has started to go mainstream already.

I'm not as pessimistic towards it as other people. Crypto is already starting to gain relevance, so it's not surprise at all for me that it's starting to rack up interest in the academia. These schools in particular are very reputable, and they're so strict with their admissions that it's hard to accuse them of simply cash grabbing.

If people are interested as to what might be taught in such classes, Princeton has a free online course in Coursera. The syllabus is available for viewing, and I've seen some materials relating to the course floating (illegally?) around the internet.

You're wrong. Crypto-currencies have more to do with economic laws than Fiat. The volatility of the cryptocurrency is the natural reaction of the currency to the changing economic situation. For this reason, the cryptocurrency economy is impossible crisis. Fiat keep in balance artificially so the crisis is a pattern Fiat economy.

I don't agree in the slightest. It is like saying that the functioning of economics, finance, etc., aka FIAT money, should be studied in a course of machine enjineering since the printers which print paper money require enjineers to be built. And since nowadays money is anyway in most cases just a number in a computer, economics should also be studies in the faculties of Informatics.
LoL.

They should also tackle about what blockchain can be used for, IMO they will be closer to being number one by doing so. I think they really need to study also the technical side of crypto in order for their students to be truly job ready deal with the crypto career for real in the future. Without knowledge of the tech, how can they use what they have studied and apply it? They would only end up as blabbermouths if they only learned it's economic aspects like what other economic experts do today.

I heard it some days before writing on this thread as the by this thread CNBC reports say that Harvard and Stanford and many more other universities and colleges are now studying Bitcoin courses on a large scale because the only thing and reason they are doing so is the high economic stability and to be the top number one rank of the global market.

Bitcoin helps grow the economy of a country by saving the cost of paper manufacturing and printing and cleaning of notes. It boosted up the economy by giving a huge profit after the jump of Bitcoin after some time.

I am very glad that cryptocurrency is increasingly accepted and recognized by all walks of life, and even educational channels have deepened and taught more about this cryptocurrency, such as the university Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University's, these universities are well-known and well-known institutions around the world, hopefully the future will be more successful and we are moving in the world of cryptocurrency is increasingly victorious, amen

Where are those people who are looking for crypto course, sadly this isn't an online course.

It will remain and crypto's are here to stay so don't think that "hype" will die. I wonder why you are thinking this in negative way.

You can verify if by yourself if you wish to know if it's real or not, be resourceful.

at least it gives a signal that cryptocurrency is known to people with the class. to ensure that i think half the world's population should use btc to meet their needs, so circulation of cryptos increases

I wonder what will happen to those courses once the cryptocurrency hype dies down. I can only imagine people with degrees in "cryptocurrency" would be hard-pressed for anything other than finance-related jobs. I wonder if that news article is even real in the first place. Too much fake news has been going around online..

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.