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BitCoin at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York

Bitcoin Class at the MoMath


BitCoin (Source: Steve Jurvetson, Copy Right Free Photo)
BitCoin - a Future?
(Source: Steve Jurvetson, Copy Right Free Photo)
USPA NEWS - National Museum of Mathematics in New York City is a fascinating Museum, offering and providing lectures, seminars, exhibitions on a diversity of topics related to Mathematics. And now the Bitcoin is one of them
BitCoin is an electronic-digital cryptographic currency based on a data-structure called Blockchain.
In its turn, the Blockchain is a decentralized and secured digital ledger, which records and keeps transactions. This is a new form of payment and more and more retailers begin to accept this currency since the technology (Blockchain) was incepted in 2008 and the Bitcoin payment system was released as the open source software in the year 2009.
On July 19th, 2017, MoMath offered the Bitcoin: A Little “Bit" of Math
Event with the following agenda: “All money is a mathematical abstraction, but cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin especially depend on a lot of deep mathematics for their existence.  In this in-depth class, you'll learn how some obscure branches of mathematics came together to become a $30 billion economic system; you'll understand the inner workings of Bitcoin and the blockchain on which it is based; and you'll even learn how to steal Bitcoin with math.  No mathematical background is required, however, the class is best suited to an adult audience“( https://in.momath.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1088).
According to Lisa Sherman-Cohen, PR associate for the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), “the event is at capacity“ and was SOLD OUT at the $60 ticket price.
This, probably, also, demonstrates the demand and the supply for the topic today.
As consumers, nowadays we have more options in where to buy and how to pay for purchases and services and the Bitcoin is a venue to explore.
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