It seems that very few colleges are beginning to develop classes on this topic. I think the University of Wyoming has a bitcoin mining class, which is cool. Maybe other colleges have lectures on blockchain but is it focused on bitcoin?
I feel like it would be the smart thing to do. If the future is bound to be a technological one, wouldn't colleges want to be at the forefront of education on this topic?
Or simply, are we still early???
Today, to teach bitcoin as a university course would at best be in a graduate level topic in cryptography. Cryptography is a very specific application of computer science and mathematics.
The majority of what happens in school, beginning in 1st grade, is to bring future-adults up-to-speed on how to participate in the culture of society. This is why history and literature is a crucial component in developing a mind, so that is capable of navigating the world and to recognize conceptual references (such as the phrase "down the rabbit hole") To teach sciences in a university setting requires that a person is guided through the proper mosaic of learning so they will have a strong foundation from which they are able to grow and accumulate more specialized knowledge after they are released to the world.
Bitcoin as a cornerstone upon which an education could be founded is to put the cart before the horse. Asymmetric cryptography and secure hashes is in a branch of mathematics that is growing in popularity, but have taken decades to take hold. These topics at present would culminate the pinnacle of an undergrad's education and shouldn't encompass the core of it.
We see Bitcoin and blockchain as a fundamental concept upon which the future will be built, but this conclusion is very recent in the zeitgeist, only a few years. Much literature that exists about blockchain today is entrepreneurial and hypothetical at best, and this civilization changing technology will take some time to settle into a body of knowledge that can be systematically taught to the next generation.
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Decentralize education. More private schools (be it homeschool, co-op, etc.) it'd be a done deal by now. With the way bitcoin and bitcoiners are growing, I can see this in the near future.
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It's just too early. It'll probably take until the other protocols die or become nascent.
Universities are very conservative and will delay, almost to the point of it being late, a decision on which technology has won. They also rarely teach specific "product" focused courses .
The closest classes I've seen that would resemble a Bitcoin class would be the iOS and Android development classes many universities taught at one point. I believe they only taught those because students and the job market demanded them. Based on the people I've talked to, university students are hardly interested in Bitcoin given the noise generated from all the other "crypto" projects and as we know there are relatively few Bitcoin jobs and VCs.
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Because Bitcoin isn't a scam.
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My senior capstone course for interdisciplinary studies focused on the problems with fiat money and promoted Bitcoin as the "fix the money, fix the world" solution to social justice issues. And by social justice, I mean poor people under authoritarian regimes in third-world countries and not blue-haired obese people being misgendered. My professor was adamant that governments only make things worse and that people need to take control of the money.
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Maybe other colleges have lectures on blockchain but is it focused on bitcoin?
I had a lecture "Blockchain Technology" in university.
The reason is that lectures are never called after specific things but the technologies instead. There is no lecture called iPhone but "Portable embedded systems" instead. There is no lecture called Windows but "Operating Systems" instead. Don't read to much into it if it doesn't wear the name Bitcoin.
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