A bitcoin obsessed university lecturer.

[Pokapoka124]

I read an article about an opinion of a university lecturer who believed bitcoin can be used to propagate critical thinking and study culture in students.

I’m a bitcoin enthusiast and share the same passion as the professor, I taught my students bitcoin along with other subjects during my one year service to my country, and I have also seen other bitcointalk members take the initiative to teach bitcoin to others. However I don’t believe bitcoin can improve one’s critical thinking, I would agree if he said, learning bitcoin will open the eyes of the students to the world of internet money.

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[serjent05]

I am confused on how this method can help the student to ease their school financial expenditures..  Among these thousands of participants in that contest, only one will win, and therefore, only one among these students will be given reward and got the possible help needed assuming the amount of prize is huge enough to even accommodate a semestral fee.

I agree with one of the replies here that it was proposed just to amplify himself and impress his students.  Honestly I just can see the relation of his plan on the aspect of students school financial expenditures being eased out.

[suzanne5223]

I like the idea introduced by the lecturer because he/she is helping the student in some way and I am sure some of the student will wan to dive more into Bitcoin through their curious about where the lecturer is getting the fund given out in BTC but the possibility of it meeting the ends aim depend on how the lecturer showcase the whole thing.

[Sarah Azhari]

similar like most of students forget with the subjects they've learn for many many years.

They have to make money from what they learn, if only remember the subject, then they will forget in what they learned. It's the same as Bitcoin for example us, who follows the signature campaign where get the bitcoin payment every week. If we only learn without receiving bitcoin payment, we're gonna be in trouble in crypto marketing products without anything practice like how to transfer bitcoin to another wallet or exchange. Because I know how quickly knowledge is forgotten if not direct practice.

[Lida93]

I am confused on how this method can help the student to ease their school financial expenditures.. 

If I understands it well then I think the whole idea behind it is to persuade and lure an interest in the students to add more time and seriousness into their study. The money mustn't be all enough but to whoever it gets to it is something. And some students may wanna give it a trial to by putting more interest in their study even while they do their paid jobs still but on the account they didn't win yet they got another benefit of learning something new for knowledge sake.

 Among these thousands of participants in that contest, only one will win, and therefore, only one among these students will be given reward and got the possible help needed assuming the amount of prize is huge enough to even accommodate a semestral fee.

Its not a thousands students, it's only for a class and a class doesn't exceeds 50 student in a modern setting of learning.
Could be a group thing, any group that won the prize will have to share some how. Its a motivational prize and not a full scholarship don't forget that.

[so98nn]

The idea is good but it will surely need a proper framework before it can be implemented into reality. The issue would start when students will only go on treasure hunts rather than studying and end up with a money-making quest. Lolz I think various universities already have Blockchain-based programs in their modules that are making new-generation programmers for the future. What I mean is, if we just add it as a subject for our students then also the interested candidates would participate in it and study for a career in the blockchain field. Now consider the example of the Avalanche project developed by Math professor from the university itself. I think we will see such progresses all the time if this system is implemented. The only catch is, it has to be on point and not some unplanned treasure hunt.

[el kaka22]

This is definitely something that would have gotten my attention and made me a better student. Of course when I was in college there wasn't anything like this, because bitcoin wasn't even a thing and it was getting newly created by the end times as well.

So, I have to say if this existed at the time and it was valued this high as well and it was given as a prize, I would have studied a lot harder, not saying I would have won, there were some pretty smart people I studied with so they would have won probably but at least I would have given it a shot, which could have resulted with a few lucky moves and me getting it. In the end, this still costs the professor money to try, and I doubt that college would cover for that expense.

[Lorence.xD]

The idea is good but it will surely need a proper framework before it can be implemented into reality. The issue would start when students will only go on treasure hunts rather than studying and end up with a money-making quest. Lolz I think various universities already have Blockchain-based programs in their modules that are making new-generation programmers for the future. What I mean is, if we just add it as a subject for our students then also the interested candidates would participate in it and study for a career in the blockchain field. Now consider the example of the Avalanche project developed by Math professor from the university itself. I think we will see such progresses all the time if this system is implemented. The only catch is, it has to be on point and not some unplanned treasure hunt.

I don't know it seems like a great idea but if you're having a prize by just hunting a bounty, then for sure students would cut classes just to focus for that bounty. I think it would be better to still connect the subjects to some bounty for them to still focus on studying and the class. There's already a lot of universities that teaches crypto industry and blockchain technology. There's no need for them to force or encourage them with a task just because there's a prize. If they want to learn something they would search for it. Just give them some enough money for a good start consider it as part of the scholarship for the courses under crypto subjects. It can already be consider as work when you're trying to understand and doing stuff just for money.