# Professor David Yermack is interviewed about his course on bitcoin for a feature trend story on the popularity of cryptocurrency courses in b-schools

1 Faculty News February 8, 2018 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/technology/cryptocurrencies-come-to-campus.html) -- "'There was some gentle ribbing from my colleagues when I began giving talks on Bitcoin,' said [David Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), a business and law professor at New York University who offered one of the first for-credit courses on the topic back in 2014. 'But within a few months, I was being invited to Basel to talk with central bankers, and the joking from my colleagues stopped after that.'"

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