Univerzitet Bentley sa sjedištem u SAD-u daje zeleno svjetlo za plaćanje školarine u bitkoinima

Uprkos tome kriptocurrency tržište currently going through a medvjed decline, the adoption of digital assets around the world is growing as governments and institutions become open to their use – including a small private university outside Boston.

Namely, Bentley University in Waltham, a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is one of the first educational institutions in the country to accept tuition fee payments made in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), the university objavio May 3.

The business school will be accepting these payments through its partnership with one of the largest crypto exchange in the world (and the largest in the U.S.), Coinbase. It also plans to accept donations and gifts in crypto.

One of Bentley’s students and an early crypto adopter Alex Kim who launched the Bentley Blockchain Association in the fall of 2021, commented on the recent development, explaining that:

„Studenti imaju istinski interes da saznaju više o blockchainu, decentralizovanim finansijama i ulaganjima u kriptovalute. Ove tehnologije utiču na industrije u kojima će raditi.”

Thanks to the student interest, Bentley University has also introduced a new crypto finance course that will begin in the fall of 2022 and will focus on blockchain applications and decentralized finance (Defi).

Bentley on the importance of crypto

In its announcement, the school echoed Kim’s position, highlighting the increasing importance of digital assets in the global economy, the creation of startups, payments of salaries, payment tracking, and even minor things like purchasing tickets to games and concerts.

The business school also quoted a studija by the Pew Research Center, which has found that over 41 million Americans, or 16% of U.S. adults had invested in, traded, or used crypto. Furthermore, the school referred to Fortune Business Insights which projektovano the global crypto market would more than double by 2028.

Interestingly, in late March a school in Dubai took steps to bring crypto into the education sector by accepting tuition payments made in both Bitcoin and Ethereum through a digital platform that automatically converts crypto into the United Arab Emirates dirhams (AED).

Meanwhile, the entire crypto market is suffering a major decline as više od $ 370 milijardi has left its market capitalization in a single week, as finbold reported earlier. Its total market cap now stands at $1.37 trillion.