Crypto class the new cool thing on campus

Professor Andrew Hinkes was ready to begin teaching the class “Digital Currencies, Blockchains and the Future of the Financial Services Industry” promptly at 10:30 a.m. inside one of New York University Stern School of Business’s largest classrooms. It’s a packed house for the lecture, which is also livestreamed. “A lot of students view education in this area as pivotal to success in the job market,” Hinkes said. “It’s one of the hottest areas in law and business.” With little reverence to it’s speculative price, the number of undergraduate students across the country deciding to study cryptocurrency and blockchain is booming. A new study from Coinbase says that almost half (42…