Vancouver-based University of British Colombia Gets Its First Bitcoin Club

Students from the University of British Colombia (UBC) create the UBC Bitcoin Club to educate their friends and classmates about cryptocurrencies.
Students in Canada are gathering all over the country to initiate projects aiming to promote digital currencies. Back in August, Colombia-based Simon Fraser University (SFU) became the first Canadian higher-education institution to accept donations in Bitcoin. Today, it is the turn of British Colombia’s largest university, the Vancouver-based University of British Colombia, to get its Bitcoin Club.
Established in September at UBC’s Vancouver campus, the UBC Bitcoin Club “seeks to provide an environment where bitcoin-related ideas, projects, programs, events, and businesses can be studied and grown,” reads the website’s homepage.
The club’s efforts are split into 4 main elements: education and engagement through events; merchant adoption by facilitating the adoption of Bitcoin as a payment method by on-campus merchants; mentorship through connecting members with leading professionals in the industry; and on-campus incubator by providing seed capital to on-campus, student-ran, Bitcoin businesses.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-10-06.

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