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How and Why Decentralized Education (DeEd) is Driving the Next Major Shift in Learning
30.1.2024
  ‘DeEd’, or decentralized education, applies the benefits of decentralized technologies to the learning process, creating distributed access to educational resources across a network of learners, teachers and institutions, without reliance on centralized authorities, and regardless...
El Salvador Launches Pilot Project to Include Bitcoin Content in School Curriculums
8.9.2023
The Ministry of Education in El Salvador partnered with Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB), a nonprofit educational organization, to make Bitcoin-related content part of the school curriculum in the country. The pilot program will train 150 teachers to impart Bitcoin education, bringing the program to...
Square Enix CEO Calls Out Teachers Who Said He Played Too Many Final Fantasy Games As A Kid
12.6.2023
So you’ve just been appointed the very top job of the gaming company you worshiped as a kid. What do you do? Gush? Gloat? Not Takashi Kiryu, the new CEO of Japanese game publisher Square Enix, who took the moment as a chance to—with immaculate politeness—call out the teachers who condemned him...
El Salvador Begins Bitcoin & Lightning Dev Courses – Who Are the ‘Rock Star’ Teachers?
25.4.2023
El Salvador’s government has announced that it has begun training Bitcoin (BTC) and Lightning Network developers as state-backed courses get underway.
In a tweet, the National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC), a government body that answers to El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, explained that 54 students...
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Will Stay Away From Crypto Investments After $95M FTX Write-Off: FT
21.4.2023
The $190 billion Canadian pension fund is "still working through what exactly happened there," according to its CEO
Vitalik on Suspect Centralization, FTX’s ‘Absolute Fraud,’ Coinbase Confirms Bitcoin Holdings — Week in Review
27.11.2022
As the smoke starts to clear around the massive crater left by the FTX disaster, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared his thoughts on the ether community’s view of centralization. In related news, CME Group CEO Terry Duffy recalls in March when he called former FTX boss...
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund Writes Down Entire Investment in Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Citing ‘Potential Fraud’
19.11.2022
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the largest pension plans in the world, is writing down its investment in the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. “Recent reports suggest potential fraud conducted at FTX which is deeply concerning for all parties,” the plan states. Major...
Pension Giant Ontario Teachers' Plans to Write Off All $95 Million Invested in Crypto Exchange FTX
18.11.2022
FTX investment represented less than 0.05% of Ontario Teachers' total net assets
TinyTap publisher NFTs generate 67.7 ETH for 6 teachers
8.11.2022
TinyTap’s first-ever publisher NFTs were all sold off, lock, stock, and barrel. However, this helped bring home an amount of 138.926 ETH, equivalent to U S $228,000. Incidentally, all the amount generated due to the sale will ultimately be distributed amongst six selected teachers, per the plans....
FTX Raises $400 Million in Series C Fundraise, Firm Reaches $32 Billion Valuation
31.1.2022
Following the company’s subsidiary FTX US raising funds in its first Series A financing round, parent company FTX Trading Ltd. has announced it has secured $400 million in a Series C fundraise. The crypto company’s latest financing round brings the firm’s post-money valuation...
Ontario Teachers Keep Investing in FTX Which is Not Available in Ontario
31.1.2022
An Ontario-based organization in charge of administering pensions for teachers once again invested during FTX’s latest fundraise, but residents of this Canadian province still can’t use FTX.com.
FTX Trading Ltd., the owner and operator of major crypto exchange FTX, said that they closed a...
FTX Raises $420 Million in Series B-1 — Crypto Exchange Commands $25 Billion Valuation
22.10.2021
The digital currency exchange FTX Trading Limited announced the firm has raised more than $420 million in a Series B-1 fundraise. The capital raise follows the crypto exchange’s financing round at the end of July when FTX raised $900 million. After the raise was announced on October 21,...
IBM Pilots Blockchain Solution For Primary Teachers' Pensions in Bangladesh
13.6.2020
A Bangeldeshi government agency is collaborating with IBM to harness blockchain for modernizing the country’s digital pension system
French Ministry of Education Publishes Bitcoin Resource Guide for Educators
1.11.2019
As digital currencies transform the world, concepts like Bitcoin continue to percolate into academic courses and higher education worldwide. The French Ministry of National Education’s recently published economics and social sciences resource guide for teachers discusses cryptographic money...
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5.9.2019
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Have you checked out Sarah Drasner's courses yet? She has two awesome courses on Design for Developers and SVG! Plus another introducing Vue.js!
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