{"id":510040,"date":"2017-12-01T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coinhash.co\/coming-soon-get-your-undergrad-in-cryptocurrency-at-nyu\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:31:37","slug":"coming-soon-get-your-undergrad-in-cryptocurrency-at-nyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/coming-soon-get-your-undergrad-in-cryptocurrency-at-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: Get Your Undergrad in Cryptocurrency at NYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>NYU is ahead of the collegiate game when it comes to financial education. It was the first major US academic institution to offer a cryptocurrency course back in 2014, and now, it <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/nyu-plans-to-launch-an-undergraduate-course-in-cryptocurrencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to offer a new option for undergraduates<\/a>, as NYU professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2d161cf6-c3b1-11e7-b30e-a7c1c7c13aab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Yermack shared with<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2d161cf6-c3b1-11e7-b30e-a7c1c7c13aab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The course is becoming something of a bullish offering already, with 300 grad students expected to apply next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Challenges include keeping up with rapid developments and finding knowledgeable faculty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor Yermack says they will be ready to adapt: \u201cYear over year we\u2019ll change well over half the course material. It keeps you young to be reading half the night just to keep up with the test innovations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t necessarily have to attend NYU to become well-versed. Much of the material is found freely online, and if you want an Ivy League school credit, search out Princeton&#8217;s \u2018Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies\u2019 course on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/cryptocurrency?action=enroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coursera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYU is ahead of the collegiate game when it comes to financial education. It was the first major US academic institution to offer a cryptocurrency course back in 2014, and now, it plans to offer a new option for undergraduates, as NYU professor David Yermack shared with the Financial Times. The course is becoming something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":509965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100550],"tags":[100585,100588,100615,100638],"class_list":["post-510040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-degree","tag-grad-school","tag-nyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/crypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}