The rise of crypto in higher education (Coinbase) It’s a slow news week for the crypto space so this survey is getting a lot of press. Here’s the stat they keep talking about: “42 percent of the world’s top 50 universities now offer at least one course on crypto or blockchain.” That means 21 schools have at least one single class teaching a 9 year-old technology. Of 675 students surveyed, 9 percent said they’ve taken a cryptocurrency course, 18 percent said they’ve owned crypto at some point, and 26 percent said they want to take a crypto course. Did we mention this is a slow news week? Data of…
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Cryptocurrency scam yanks the knob with a nutty joke
They didn’t raise much money, but man, what a punchline
After raising a money via an initial coin offering (ICO), an organization called Prodeum Project issued a radical update to its website. What was once home to a technical white paper, a social media presence, and a store of general information about the company was replaced with…well, this tweet captures it succinctly: Prodeum just milked all their investors out of millions, then changed their website to this. I'm finding it hard to hate them at this point. #bitcoin #prodeum #ico #crypto #cryptocurrency #blockchain #tech #initialcoinoffering #investing #finance #investment #ethereum #ripple pic.twitter.com/LSn6IBjigi — Lisa Kilker (@lisakilker) January 28, 2018 To be clear, this ICO did not raise thousands, let alone millions.…
