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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout. Other companies and institutions are already taking the same idea and offering it today.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Sony’s in the business. You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 Malta thinks it’s necessary, I guess. It became the first country to explore issuing educational certificates via the blockchain. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. Pearson filed a patent for badges.