Bitcoin SV (BSV)-promoting Bitcoin Association has awarded a PhD pupil at Cambridge Academy with its Satoshi Nakamoto Scholarship, designed to back up the evolution of blockchain applications.

Per a January. nine press release, Robin Kohze, a 2nd-year homo genomics PhD student at Cambridge University, became the start to receive the scholarship following a series of blockchain competitions within the Bitcoin SV Hackathon last autumn. With his project dubbed, Hive, Kohze took 2nd place. The scholarship is set to allow farther development of Hive into a fully operational platform.

Challenging the media landscape

As the release described, Hive is geared toward changing the media landscape past implementing a molecular dynamic inspired incentive system, within which information can exist added by users effectually the earth. Detailing the operational principles of the system, the release reads:

"Every content node containing information needs i or more linked nodes and every new link to a node has a dynamic cost to generate comprehensive knowledge networks. The resulting graph database is directly stored and maintained on the Bitcoin SV blockchain to grant a maximum of interoperability and transparency."

Commenting on the development, Kohze said: "With HIVE, I utilise the original Bitcoin protocol to implement a novel combination of game theoretical rule-sets to reconnect diverging perspectives in an increasingly polarised media mural."

Blockchain enters the education space

As digital currencies and blockchain technology are becoming more integrated into everyday life, educational establishments are expanding blockchain-based training services. But recently, quondam MakerDAO contributor and Carnegie Mellon alumnus, Nikolai Mushegian committed 10,000 MKR — valued at just under $4.6 million at printing fourth dimension — to his alma mater to develop a enquiry program for decentralized applications.

The Africa Blockchain Institute will open up Rwanda'southward ostensibly first blockchain school in 2020. The new school has five key courses in the pipeline: a blockchain essentials certification class, a blockchain developers' course, an enterprise blockchain course, blockchain for lawyers and blockchain for touch.