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STANFORD UNIVERSITY COURSE COULD GROW BITCOIN COMMUNITY, SAYS PROFESSOR

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/stanford-university-course-grow-bitcoin-community/

Omg! This is great!!!

"If we can start turning out 100 students a year who are experts on Bitcoin, this will really start growing the community quickly which should lead to exciting new technical advances in the future."
-Professor Joseph Bonneau

So when will high schools, better yet, middle schools start to teach on the subject??

Yes, this is good news! Speaking of school, I have three currently in elementary school and they watch me when I go on exchanges and do buys/trades. I am already getting them started down the path of digital currency. I show them their CRISP for Kids savings and they see how it grows. They truly are very interested in it and how money is sent "through the air" as they say. You can never start them too early.

Educating the next generations about digital currency is one of the most important things we can do. They build upon what our industry has created.

The financial world will be forced to offer programs and classes on digital currency. Just as schools were forced to offer computer classes. Unfortunately the first computers hit my high school the year after I graduated. The computers came in at the end of my Senior year and were sitting in the business classes I was taking for the next school year. All we could do was look at them. Yes folks, I learned on a typewriter, thankfully it was electric and not manual.

I remember getting our first puter for the office, a 386SX, and thinking we would never need more than one PC in the office. That was about the very early 1990's or so. Then we got FOUR puters, 486SX. Everyone in the office had one, including me. I said "we will never need the internet at work". What would we need internet at work for? Then we got internet, BUT only on ONE puter, and that puter was not connected to the company network. I just did not trust the damn thing (the internet). Took a few years of being stubborn, but I finally relented and allowed the internet on the company puters. That was two decades ago. Seems like a lifetime.

Still remember our first "Mobile phone", a bag phone........

Smokey

It is absolutely amazing how quickly technology evolves. Today you can't run most businesses without the internet, at least a dozen computers, and mobile phones.

Fond memories of dragging around the 30 pound mobile phone, and finding a good place to suction the antenna.

The bag phone was hooked up to the vehicle horn so when it rang and you were not right next to it you knew it was ringing. When you think of the technology and actually how quickly it progressed to what we have today it really was not that long ago. And to think with the technology available now how much more quickly things can change. I will probably always be asking my grandkids "hey can you fix this for me" then hand them my phone or computer. Sad when a 9 year old can fix it but I cannot... and it is mine. I believe the yonger the person the more they will understand the crypto world, as they are more tech minded. They start out as babies in the tech world.

That was one of our reasons for launching CRISP For Kids. My 7 year old grandson spent a day with me yesterday. When I asked him if he knew what DNotes is. He said, "It's money, Grandpa. You already showed me my savings account. It will be cool if I can use it to buy games at Apple store." I have the feeling that the next generation would ask why do we need cash. With digital currency and a smart phone you are your own bank.