This is a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Korok Ray to talk about Bitcoin being integrated into curriculum at the university level.
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Q: Bitcoin doesn't always have the most positive sentiment around it. There are some very passionate people who feel strongly against Bitcoin, especially those in academia. I'm curious what conversations are like with some of your colleagues who may not necessarily see Bitcoin in the same way that you see it.
Korok Ray: Yeah. I faced a lot of these conversations when I tried to run my conference. So, I will say, first among the universe of universities, Texas A & M would probably give Bitcoin as fair a shake as any university. There are other universities that are, I would say, actively hostile.
My campus and my colleagues were more neutral. They were like, “Why Bitcoin, why not some other coin? Who cares really? Why should we go out and have a conference about this brand new technology? Why don't we just sit back and wait and let the market see if this has any value?” That was more of my experience from my colleagues here. They were a little less reluctant to plant a flag and take a position on Bitcoin specifically, or even crypto. Some of them were saying the entire crypto space is too speculative. “We're universities. We want to be a little bit more slow and deliberate and backward-looking.”
Personally, I think that's a mistake. I think universities have to be forward-looking and we have to take a position and we have to speak
