The ambitions that blockchain technology brings to contemporary world are enormous - massive versatility of the scalable ledgers has increased the acceptance and demand for cryptocurrencies, assets and projects based on that technology. That convinces many people into thinking that blockchain is one of the most important technologoies of this century. The only problem that world has been facing with blockchain till now is the lack of people that really understand the technology - experts that know how use blockchain in order to push the technological progress further. But soon that might not be an issue anymore.
Actually there is no surprise that colleges and universities have increased their intereset around blockchain and crypotcurrencies - there are many official posts that demand knowledge of this technology in order to participate in solving
of the international scale problems. Soon there will be fresh recruits needed for those posts and blockchain experts and engineers will become both demanding and well payed jobs (we are talking 6 digits salaries).
The first ever university that is offering blockchain graduation degree and accepts bitcoin as a tuition payment is located in Cyprus - there have been applications recieved from whole around the world. The fact that the University of Nicosia in Cyprus accepts Bitcoin also made things easier for students that live in countries where people cannot send money via their bank account either because of the lack of these instituions or the fear of prosecution from the government that does not want young citizens to live or study outside their country.
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There are also many other universities and colleges around the world that are considering adding Bitcoin as payment option for the tuition which in my opinion are great news - it makes the education even more available for wider spectrum of people and it implements Bitcoin payments for something really valuable in contemporary world - education. Now we can say that it's even possible to invest bitcoin in education. Soon we will also see many other universities looking for young bold prodigies willing to dive into deep studies of blockchain and pay with Bitcoin for it.
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