A group of university students in Italy are promoting Bitcoin education in the country's high schools. This and more news in this handy daily digest so you're always up to date with the latest events happening within the crypto world.
BitGeneration brings Bitcoin education to high schools in Italy
📍A group of students from the Politecnico di Torino University in Italy are launching an educational project focused on Bitcoin, called BitGeneration. The news was released by Bitcoin Magazine, highlighting that BitGeneration seeks to promote education about Bitcoin and cryptoeconomics in the country's secondary schools.
The project has a web portal where it is detailed that the innovation of blockchain technology and concerns about the privacy and security of Bitcoin are also topics of interest addressed in BitGeneration.
In addition to this, the group of students from the Polytechnic University of Turin has several teams dedicated to web development, the implementation of Bitcoin nodes and the implementation of cryptography algorithms and techniques to deepen knowledge in the blockchain ecosystem.
At the moment, to encourage education about Bitcoin and its potential in Italian schools, the student group at the Politecnico di Torino University is organizing talks, workshops and debates through different media, such as podcasts, live events and more.
A blockchain initiative in South Africa to boost sustainable energy production
📍Investors can purchase blockchain-based assets to incentivize energy production in South African schools. The initiative, promoted by South African company Momint, uses NFT tokens to link solar panels on the blockchain.
Thanks to the detailed and immutable record that blockchain allows, investors can acquire these NFTs and allocate the solar panels to schools, hospitals and other places where energy production needs to be increased or strengthened.
Delmas High School, located in Mpumalanga province, is one of the educational institutions that is already receiving energy through a solar photovoltaic system powered by blockchain and NFTs.
Each of the non-fungible tokens that are part of this energy initiative are offered at a minimum price of $9, according to local media outlet News24.
Japan promotes social reintegration through the Metaverse
📍The city of Tokyo, Japan, is exploring a new use case for the Metaverse: social reintegration. According to a report Published by The Mainichi, one of Japan's leading newspapers, the city of Edogawa, Tokyo, is developing a socialization program in the metaverse, which aims to promote the social reintegration of those people who have difficulty attending public places or meeting others in person.
Edogawa Mayor Takeshi Saito stressed that the metaverse may not be the ultimate solution for the thousands of citizens suffering from this social phenomenon, but it certainly represents a step forward in helping many return to social life.
Bitcoin developers receive new donation
📍The Human Rights Foundation makes a new donation to developers of Bitcoin-focused projects. HRF has donated nearly $475.000 to 10 global projects that drive the development and growth of the Bitcoin network. The projects funded by the foundation range from projects that promote crypto-education, to the development of new solutions, technologies, and the security of the blockchain network.
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