This is not actually true, Bitcoin has not gotten enough publicity and awareness maybe it could just be around 20% out of 100 % of the world population.
What type of publication do you still want Bitcoin to have? I think Bitcoin has promoted itself, from the likes of critics to the top, and from last year's data, the world population which is into crypto is still below 20%, but that does not mean that a higher percentage of the left have not heard about crypto.
It is a bit unclear to what you are referring.
First you are mixing terms of bitcoin and crypto, and it seems that this thread is about bitcoin and not about crypto, even though sure we might proclaim that there is some relation to crypto whether we are talking about how much crypto might be included in the teachings of the Master's degree or if we might be talking about the extent to which the world's population is aware of bitcoin and/or crypto and then how much adoption there might be of bitcoin and/or crypto. It still seems important to attempt to distinguish between them so that we might know what you are talking about since for sure there is a lot of confusion, including folks not necessarily knowing the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins.
Second: if we are talking about people who know about bitcoin, it could not be very many, since if they actually knew about bitcoin they would start buying it. Sure there may well be a lot of people who heard the name bitcoin, yet they might not know shit about bitcoin, and part of the evidence of someone not knowing bitcoin is when they use the word crypto to refer to bitcoin and other related projects either because they actually don't know what is bitcoin and/or because they are trying to sound as if they were smart.
Third: Actual bitcoin adoption may well ONLY be around 1% of the world's population, even though we have more and more rich people, institutions and governments getting involved in buying and/or holding bitcoin. Maybe we have an additional amount of people who hold crypto, yet I am not sure how much that shitcoin holding matters, yet I suppose there could be ways of trying to figure out the extent to which there might be some shitcoin holders that exist that ONLY hold shitcoins and do not hold bitcoin. Sure there are likely some of those, and yeah, they likely don't know much about bitcoin if they are holding shitcoins and thinking that there is some kind of good reason to do so.. beside pure gambling.
Frankly, I don't see the point of this initiative. If a person realizes that he or she is interested in cryptography, he or she will study this field on his or her own. Nowadays it is quite easy to find the information you are interested in. Teaching cryptography to people who are not interested in it looks not quite rational. In my opinion, the one who launched this initiative just wants to draw attention to himself. Maybe even attract some sponsorship from Bitcoin maximalists. Nothing more. I am sure that many people who finish this program will never decide to use Bitcoin.
Anyone who is not interested in learning about cryptography won't be forced to take a course they don't want; each department usually has where they focus on, like I assumed in my
first comment on this thread that it will be under or indirectly under the economics department, just as JayJuanGee has quoted the courses, so it's left for the person who wants to study to decide.
With most programs, there will be some mandatory components that need to be studied by all the students, and there will be some elective areas, and sure a student could probably choose to focus on cryptography kinds of studies within the elective component of their program. Alternatively, a student could choose to minimize the amount of exposure to the cryptographic aspects of bitcoin and focus on non-cryptographic aspects of bitcoin (apart from whatever materials about cryptography are within the mandatory areas of the curriculum.
I like the fact that it's bitcoin centred not Blockchain as other universities integrates from bitcoin as a bait word to teaching how to create shitcoins etc.
However, do I need to take a master course to learn all this included about bitcoin? Hell Nah! all
All the listed agenda or course outlines are what exactly I have been gathering from this forum with just mere engagement not even full time engagement yet I'm learning everything they want to teach in a masterclass or degree. lol
IMHO, bitcoin knowledge is everywhere! just have to make time to learn, unlearn and re-learn.
Actually, even then Bitcoin knowledge is everywhere! But the problem is if you don't have the right direction maybe there can be few years but you wouldn't able to get all the things related bitcoin.
Just because people heard the word bitcoin does not mean that they know anything about it. As I mentioned in my above response, if people actually knew what bitcoin is, they would actually get started buying it - especially if they have some discretionary income... but we have less than 1% world-wide adoption and perhaps even some folks who have started with bitcoin don't really know it, except that it has a "number go up" characteristic/feature.
And about the bitcoin and Blockchain, then we also might know that bitcoin also used the Blockchain technology the real beauty of the Blockchain technology. So I think Blockchain technology should be also in the course plan where maybe we can get something more great from bitcoin in the long future ?
It used to be that when people wanted to sound like they knew what they were talking about they would say that bitcoin is all about block chain, and that blockchain angle is what makes bitcoin important and valuable. Blockchain is like a buzzword to make you look smart when you use it, similar to how crypto is sometimes used. People try to avoid saying bitcoin because they will consider that they might look smarter if they say blockchain or maybe if they say crypto, instead.
