# In an in-depth interview, Professor David Yermack shares how he first became interested in bitcoin and his views on the regulation of cryptocurrencies

1 Faculty News June 4, 2018 ![ValueWalk logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/valuewalk.jpg?itok=4HYE4IGy)>

Excerpt from [ValueWalk](https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/06/evaluation-interview-david-yermack/) -- "I approached a colleague at NYU Law School who had been teaching Banking Law and had been covering a little bit of Bitcoin for a number of years and I proposed launching a course on this topic. That course, if you fast forward today, has 230 students and is the foundation of a whole program of FinTech courses that we have at Stern and the IOMS Department. This has caught the imagination of a lot of students, but also a lot of employers who are hiring many students in the space."

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