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Bitcoin 101 at NYU The Stern School of Business at NYU was the first major US academic institution to offer a course in cryptocurrencies to its graduate students back in 2014. Now the school plans to offer a new option for undergraduates to learn about the field as well, NYU professor David Yermack told the Financial Times. This new course is likely to be a highly sought one among NYU undergrads. Starting out with just a few dozen students, the graduate course accommodated 100 this year with many more applying to get in, and is expected to reach about 300 graduate students next year. “We are moving it to our largest auditorium, with capacity for 350 students,” the professor exclaimed. Challenges Universities that wish to offer classes about bitcoin, blockchain and other cryptocurrency related material face two problematic issues at the moment. First, as anyone who follows the news can tell you, these subjects are changing at an incredible speed and ...

Multiple Cryptocurrency Exchanges Suffer From Website Outages and Service Issues Cryptocurrency exchanges had some difficulties on November 29 as the price had wild and tumultuous price swings all day long. After the big spike and the start of the dip, customers started venting on forums and social media complaining about trading platforms and outages. The forum /r/bitcoin started a megathread dedicated to exchange outages. “Please discuss exchange outages here instead of everyone submitting screenshots of a broken website,” pleaded the subreddit moderator. Many Bitfinex customers complain that their positions were liquidated on November 29. The Bittrex exchange says they had issues on Wednesday as well. According to multiple reports, exchanges such as Coinbase, GDAX, Gemini, Bitstamp, Kraken, Bitfinex, and others had issues with their websites during the day. Traders complained of downtime during the dip, margin trading liquidations, and flash crashes. For inst...

Tyrese Gibson is currently in South Africa wherr the 'Fast and Furious' actor paid a visit to Winnie Madikizela Mandela, the wife of former South African President, Nelson Mandela The actor who landed in Johannesburg on Tuesday, was joined by his wife Samantha Lee Gibson, to visit the South African activist and politician in Soweto. After the visit, Tyrese shared an Instagram video of himself presenting Winnie Mandela with a 'Fast and Furious' Box Set, which after he and his wife hugged and kissed her. Captioning his video, an excited Tyrese wrote:  'To kiss the lips of a revolutionary Mother Winnie Mandela Africa we love You and appreciate more than you could ever imagine for the love and warm embrace you made me and my wife feel MOST welcome thank you Mother see you soon!! and I wanted to leave you with some love Too........ #FastEntireCollection Johannesburg I’m here baby Watch the video below.. To kiss the lips of a revolutionary M...

Three people were killed, three others critically injured when a Dangote cement truck ran over a commercial tricycle popularly known as Keke Napep on Wednesday afternoon along cemetery junction, Lokoja, Kogi state capital. According to eye witness accounts, the Dangote Cement truck on a high speed smashed into the tricycle, killing three occupants instantly and leaving others fatally wounded. One of the casualties has been identified as Adesewa Bukky Adebayo, a student Of  Federal University Lokoja, Department of History, who was returning from a bank after paying her tuition fee. Another casualty is believed to be an officer of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, who also died on the spot. Kogi First Lady Mrs. Rashida Bello, who arrived the accident scene almost immediately rushed the survivors to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja where they are receiving medical attention. It was gathered that the truck driver tried to escape ...

Togolese professional footballer Emmanuel Adebayor, who plays as a striker for Turkish club istanbul Başakşehir , accidentally revealed that he was dating ex-BBA winner, Dillish Mathews after posts they made on social media drew attention from observant people. While visiting him in Turkey, Dillish shared a photo of herself today via Instagram but didn't indicate she was there to visit anyone. It was Emmanuel's 'His and Hers' post on Snapchat, which showed off part of Dillish's outfit, that blew their secret open.

PwC is a well-known auditing firm that offers multinational financial services with offices all around the globe. The company is currently the second largest ‘Big Four’ auditing company in the world and has held this record for the past seven years. This week the Wall Street Journal reports that the company’s Hong Kong office has accepted bitcoin as a payment for consultancy services. PwC has been interested in digital currency solutions and blockchain technology for the past three years. The accountancy firm’s Asia-Pacific chairman, Raymund Chao, says the move is a milestone for the company.   “It is also an indication that bitcoin and other established cryptocurrencies have now developed into more broadly accepted forms of settlement,” explains Chao. PwC Hong Kong. PwC Follows the Other ‘Big Four’ Firms That Have Embraced Bitcoin The company is a touch behind its competitors as both Deloitte and EY have offices that accept the cryptocurrency and bitcoin ...

Cool FM OAP, and Free Sheeple covener, Daddy Freeze has fired back at The Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), Pastor  Matthew Ashimolowo after he called him a yoyo and accused him of beating up his wife and son while he was preaching about tithe. Ashimolowo during his sermon said "Once and for all let's settle this matter, on the power of the tithe. Some bunch of yoyo somewhere should not determine what you pay. Some guy who beats his wife, throws her out, throws his children out of the house, broke his son's knees, should not determine what we believe. He drinks alcohol, sleeps with women and he's trying to preach" Replying Freeze wrote; Haaaaaa! Has it come to this? - See the way he is defending tithing with so much passion, I hope this same passion is extended to bringing home our brothers who are currently enslaved in Libya. - I didn't hear ONE single bible verse, just sentiments and emotions ...

After Davido took to twitter to share a backstage photo of himself posing with Cardi B at the MOBO awards in London and described himself as her fan, she replied - also describing his music as amazing and congratulated him on winning the best African act award.

An Iranian woman has had at least 50 surgeries in order to look like Angelina Jolie but people honestly think she needs to sue her doctors Sahar Tabar is only 19, yet at such a young age, she has already had so much done to her body just to look like her idol. The woman from Teheran, Iran says she is one of Angelina Jolie’s biggest fans and "would do anything" to look like the Hollywood actress. She went on to shed 90 lbs. and now diets constantly to maintain her weight at 40 kilograms. She's also had 50 surgical procedures just to attain the look that she had always coveted. Obviously, her aim was defeated because she has now become the butt of online jokes and people are referring to her as frightening, zombie-like, corpse bride, and the ghost bride. Some have said she looks very sickly and pale but she doesn't seem to mind and happily posts her photos to her 296,000+ followers on Instagram. Prior to the surgeries, Sahar was a...