Hello steemian@cryptoracer and a news for you!17 Universities to Boost Blockchain!!

Digital currency startup Ripple, the blockchain-based installment arrange, is giving $50 million to 17 colleges around the globe to reinforce the selection of blockchain, the innovation supporting bitcoin.

Ripple declared the organization, called the University Blockchain Research Initiative, on its site June 4. The organization said its gifts will be made in U.S. dollars, not digital currency.

Here’s the complete list of the 17 universities that Ripple is investing in:

1.Princeton University (Center for Information Technology Policy)
2.MIT (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
3.University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School)
4.Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
5.Australian National University College of the Law
6.Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
7.Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
8.University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business)
9.International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H)
10.Korea University
11.University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business)
12.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
13.University College London
14.University of Luxembourg
15.University of Nicosia (Cyprus)
16.University of Oregon
17.University of Waterloo (Canada)
Ripple has additionally utilized its blossoming crypto riches for good social causes. Two weeks back, Ripple collaborated with performer Ashton Kutcher to give $4 million in XRP to the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, which helps jeopardized species. Kutcher, a speculator in Ripple, is a long-lasting bitcoin bull.

In the interim, blockchain keeps on creating features for its adaptability. Retail mammoth Walmart as of late documented a patent for a blockchain-based advanced commercial center.
Indeed, even affirmed cryptographic money cynics have surrendered that blockchain could change medicinal services, keeping money, production network administration, and media outlets. That is the reason even Old Money like the Rockefeller family is putting resources into blockchain new companies.

Furthermore, a significant number of the best business colleges on the planet, including Wharton and Stanford, have extended their MBA course contributions to incorporate classes on bitcoin and blockchain. "We're at the point where there's a minimum amount to show this area," said Kevin Werbach, an educator at the Wharton School.