Bitcoin Block Chain Themed Class Offered at Duke UniversityProfessor Campbell Harvey of Fuqua School of Business at Duke University is now offering a new class. The class is called ‘Innovations and Cryptoventures,’ and students can take it from the spring semester of 2015.Harvey developed the new and innovative class for the last few months and he was excited to announce that it was finally ready.
The course will be recommended to all MBA students, Law students and graduate students, but any technically skilled undergraduate students at the university can enroll for the class.Some other renowned schools have launched block chain, Bitcoin or crypto currency related programs and classes. NYU and the University of Nicosia are among these institutes.The blend of students with various skill sets and levels of experience in Duke University is an intentional one. Harvey’s plan is to form teams of 4 students.
He would ask the group members to come up with their unique cryptoventures. At the end of the class, he will present their final grades to the class.‘Innovations and Cryptoventures’ is expected to be a very interesting course. It will not bore the students with the unimportant and outdated monotony of mid-terms exams, final exams and homework.Instead, Harvey wants some exciting cryptoventure projects to be voiced from within the classroom. For the cause, all students and the professor will need to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements stating that they will not reveal the content of any of the projects presented within the classroom.
In the course description, it was elaborated how ‘Innovations and Cryptoventures’ is different from any other Bitcoin classes held at different institutes so far.Harvey wrote that the class is not just a course that explores transactions made in bitcoin. The concept of the course is for the participants to understand the disruptive technology and then assess its implications on the way businesses are conducted.The primary focus of the class would be on the underlying network behind Bitcoin.
Students will also learn about the many firms that have already started to capitalize using bitcoin. The Bitcoin network, including the block chain, offers a secure way to confirm ownership of things.The security features is established and maintained by the immense amount of computing power needed to add to the block chain. One should look at the block chain as a secure repository of common knowledge, to make things simpler.A broad range of things can be linked to the block chain, this varies from ownership of a car to accessing cloud computing, or medical records.
It really is possible to make algorithmic contracts within this pioneering network. This also trails to the possibility of disruptions in the finance sector, in law and many other fields.The Bitcoin technology can be used to create a distributed autonomous corporation. A Distributed Autonomous Corporation is an independent computer program that employs people and carried out business as any corporation would.Although the promotional flyers for the course call for undergraduate students in computer science department, Harvey informed CCN that any student who has interest or experience in the Bitcoin world may apply.
