{"id":72576,"date":"2023-01-16T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72576"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:31:58","slug":"texas-am-university-to-launch-an-educational-bitcoin-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/texas-am-university-to-launch-an-educational-bitcoin-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M University to launch an educational Bitcoin course."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2023, Texas A&#038;M University will launch an educational program devoted to Bitcoin, said Professor Korok Ray, who will teach the course.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\"><p>\\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">I will be teaching the first ever Bitcoin class at Texas A&#038;M this spring!<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Korok Ray (@KorokRay) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KorokRay\/status\/1613663285039042564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The course, named Bitcoin Protocol, will be part of the university&#8217;s curriculum for students in two colleges \u2014 Mays Business School and the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is based on the book Programming Bitcoin by Bitcoin Core developer Jimmy Song.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Ray, it took months to approve the course. He called the program important in the long term and thanked the mining company Riot Blockchain for its support.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the analytics service CoinGecko <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coingecko-publishes-nft-starter-guide\">published the book &#8216;How to NFT&#8217;<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In October, 1inch and fintech company Revolut <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/1inch-and-revolut-launch-defi-training-course-for-beginners\">launched the educational course &#8216;Learn and Earn&#8217;<\/a> for newcomers to DeFi.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spring 2023, Texas A&#038;M University will launch an educational program devoted to Bitcoin, according to Professor Korok Ray, who will teach the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,256],"class_list":["post-72576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72578,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72576\/revisions\/72578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}