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Blockchain Revolution Series: Irish university and an Ivy league to offer blockchain and cryptocurrency education

As the cryptocurrencies have resumed their bullish streaks amid the mixed bag of turbulence between constructive and adverse news. The lingering prospects among the Blockchain/FinTech space have led the keen interest continues to mount everywhere, reputed institutions from Big 4 auditing firms to the central banks of advanced economies have been investing into R&D projects of blockchain and cryptocurrency gamut.

Ivy leagues like Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, CFA institute the US, and Edinburg Napier University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and now, Wharton and an Irish university have also been no exception.

The Irish university (Dublin City University) has joint-ventured with a tech company network technology Ireland ICT Skillnet to generate the country’s first master’s program in blockchain technology.

This is the ICT Skillnet’s attempts to recognize the skillset in potential candidates for making successful blockchain-savvy engineers driven by the blockchain educational hub Blockchain Ireland. The “Master’s in Blockchain has been announced by the Irish government’s Department of Business, Enterprise, and Innovation.

While the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is launching an online course on FinTech including cryptocurrencies, as per a press release.

The major features of this brand new online course on Fintech are discourses and case studies in areas of payments using blockchain technology as technology and cryptocurrencies as a currency system etc.

In yet another case, the United States Ivy League University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has announced that it is offering an online program on fintech, which includes topics on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

Currency Strength Index: FxWirePro's hourly BTC spot index is inching towards -183 levels (which is highly bearish), while hourly USD spot index was at 52 (bullish) while articulating (at 06:47 GMT). 

For more details on the index, please refer below weblink: http://www.fxwirepro.com/currencyindex

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