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September 27, 2018
“There is rapidly growing student interest. They're seeing opportunities with companies that want students to work in this area, which include both blockchain focused startups as well as major companies. Wharton [School of the University of Pennsylvania] sends people to all the Fortune 500 companies, and investment banks and technology firms. A very high percentage of those leading firms now have blockchain or distributed ledger projets, and they’re looking for expertise in that area.â€As more and more businesses enter the blockchain-sphere, there will be a demand for people to maintain jobs related to the field. Glassdoor.com is already listing over 2,600 jobs related to blockchain. However the real challenge comes for the professors who have to teach the subject to students. For ten years now, blockchain has been mainly seen as the technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The 2008 technology has just started up to catch up on as in demand course in recent years. As the blockchain comes out, colleges have brought in computer programs but as aforementioned, teaching is the subject is the real challenge which has been embraced by scholars within recent years. References Forbes
