# Prof. David Yermack's course on Bitcoin is featured

1 Faculty News December 3, 2014 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_043475.jpg?itok=WjrQw1P1)>

Excerpt from [Village Voice](http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-12-03/news/bitcoin-class-nyu/) -- "'\[Bitcoin\] reimagines money, which is something that everybody is interested in at some level,' says [Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack). 'And it's the first currency ever that really wasn't connected to a government or some kind of sovereign authority. It's made people think about possibilities for commerce and business and daily life that probably never occurred to them before.'"

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