Ethereum’s team lead, Peter Szilagyi, expressed his displeasure with his former university’s lack of enthusiasm in pushing students to work with Ethereum. Ethereum team lead Peter Szilagyi has expressed frustration that his university is not interested in giving students chances to work with Ethereum.
After returning to his old university to give talks about Ethereum, Szilagyi explained in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) that he had always felt a lack of genuine interest. He said that rather than the project itself, the students seemed more interested in the price of Ethereum.
“The audience seems to have been stuck in the number go up aspect; and the organizers always used it as an ad campaign.”
This year, Szilagyi mentioned, he arranged a grant that covered airfare and lodging for nine students to take part in Devconnect. He asserts that the students are ignorant of the initiative’s funding source, though.
“I haven’t personally met the students, but I hear from someone who has. According to the report, “They had no idea where the grant came from.”
“I thought we’d see if this aroused any interest. Sent letters to several former university acquaintances (including the grant recipient) asking if they could suggest a few students for possible paid collaboration on various projects.
Szilagyi, however, is adamant that the university ignored his emails and kept him in the dark regarding the result. He said, “Two [weeks] later, zero effs, not even a response.”
Nonetheless, new reports indicate that demand for blockchain and cryptocurrency courses at universities is rising. According to a report published on February 24, big businesses are boosting demand for cryptocurrency education.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency experts have been actively recruited by a number of well-known companies, such as Google, Oracle, and Amazon, to assist in the development of blockchain products in recent years.
Additionally, it was observed that students studying information systems are becoming more interested in learning about decentralised applications.
More recently, the Institute of Crypto-Assets was established in France. The institute will support and carry out cryptocurrency and blockchain research.