Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project: ‘I don’t have money to be losing’
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Jay-Z's Bitcoin Academy course will be offered exclusively to Marcy Houses, a public housing development in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Students will receive a free mobile hotspot device and smartphone with a data plan, as they sit for lectures on topics including “What is money” and “How not to get scammed” The average household income for public housing residents in New York City is $24,454, according to the N.Y. City Housing Authority. The Bitcoin Academy will be taught by Lamar Wilson, who runs the website Black Bitcoin Billionaire, and Najah J Roberts, founder and CEO of a brick-and-mortar crypto school in California called CryptoBlockage Plug. Source