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Students at Prestigious Institutions are excited to Study Bitcoin.

Students at Prestigious Institutions are excited to Study Bitcoin. According to Dan Boneh, co-director of the Stanford Computer Security Lab and professor of cryptography, he is attracting a large number of people to his cryptocurrency courses. As a cryptography researcher for almost 30 years, Boneh began teaching a bitcoin and cryptocurrency class in 2015, attracting more than 100 students. His online cryptography course has seen over one million signing up, reports  CNBC . College students at some of the world’s most prestigious educational and research institutions such as Stanford are rushing to take cryptocurrency programs, curriculums, and classes. More importantly, in 2017 alone,  the price of bitcoin has increased by over six-fold, while the market cap of Ethereum increased from $10 billion to $30 billion, demonstrating drastic surges in value.  Taken away by the market valuations of leading cryptocurrencies, Boneh noted that students have become eager to learn mo