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‘Ivy League’ school Wharton gets $5 million in Bitcoin as donation
The University of Pennsylvania received a $5 million donation via Bitcoin recently for its finance programs, the school said...
Tag: academia
May 20 2021
May 06 2021
Southeast Asia’s largest bank sees tenfold crypto trading volume growth in Q1
Trading volumes on DBS Digital Exchange, an institutional crypto trading platform launched by Singapore’s largest bank DBS in December, have increased tenfold over the last quarter, DBS CEO Piyush Gupta revealed in a media briefing...
Mar 04 2021
Polkadot developer Parity Technologies to partner with UC Berkeley
Parity would work closely with Berkeley’s blockchain community on education and proficiency in blockchain and Substrate. Parity for blockchain inclusion Today, the University of California, Berkeley ‘Blockchain Xcelerator,’ and...
Sep 28 2020
Bitcoin basher Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini brands $13b DeFi industry “vaporware”
The decentralized finance space has seen a parabolic explosion since the start of 2020. Due to a confluence of trends, including but not limited to a search for yield on cash and a recovery in the price of Bitcoin, DeFi coins have gone from a market capitalization of a billion or two to $13 billion as per CryptoSlate data. Value is also accruing...