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1/ "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation…"
Where have we been?
We announced a lot of things a few months ago and then we went quiet.
Why?
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Sorry that it has been quiet
Been working on many things...
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RTFKT IS NOW A PART OF NIKE.
Since we started, we always looked up to NIKE, with the goal to create the NIKE born on the Metaverse. 2 years later, a new chapter begins, proof that with passion, hard work and the best people, you can achieve anything. Can’t wait for 2022 
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gm all inclusive metaverse community 🙏
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1/ So what specifically is the @UNIC_ENG Open Metaverse Initiative? A quick 
UNIC is the largest university in Cyprus, a comprehensive university with 7 schools, 20 academic departments and 100+ degree programs offered on-campus and online and 14,500 degree-seeking students
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The M5 Competition was the largest forecasting competition of all time with 100,000+ entries from Forecasters and Data Scientists from 100+ countries.
Join (and team) for the M5 Conference in New York next month (6-7 December)
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University of Nicosia does it again!
Teaching digital currencies since 2013 with and , and now launching , introducing courses on metaverse and NFTs, an incubator for startups in the space and more, while making an announcement with a CrypToadz
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Come for the !vibes
Stay for building the academic, research and policy infrastructure of the open metaverse
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1/ So what specifically is the @UNIC_ENG Open Metaverse Initiative? A quick
UNIC is the largest university in Cyprus, a comprehensive university with 7 schools, 20 academic departments and 100+ degree programs offered on-campus and online and 14,500 degree-seeking students
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13/ We are so impressed with everyone. Keep up the great work and the good fight for open systems.
We are with you all the way.
WAGMI!
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12/ This is a mega project and we want to do it together with you. We are looking for people to collaborate in all areas, from teaching/research to policy/outreach to entrepreneurship.
And of course, course participants.
get in touch here unic.ac.cy/openmetaverse or DM us
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11/ We are rolling out NFTs on campus:
a) a new permanent NFT gallery this month
b) different systems in the Spring Semester
c) our crypto conference will have a significant NFT/metaverse track this year
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10/ We support innovation and entrepreneurship in the field.
We are currently incubating two startups in the NFT space that will launch this fall.
We intend to support both entrepreneurs and creators in the space on an ongoing basis
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9/ On the research and policy side, we are launching a new research center (the Center for an Open Metaverse) on metaverse related topics and the Open Metaverse Alliance, a coalition of organizations committed to open metaverse principles
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8/ So we are ready to lean in again.
On the teaching side:
a) We are launching a free MOOC focused on NFTs/metaverse in Feb 2022. There is a great roster of guest lecturers that we will announce next week
b) We have begun development of an MSc in Metaverse Systems
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7/ We have been monitoring the NFT and emerging metaverse space very carefully since late last year.
We are convinced that NFTs add an important decentralized social layer to the world.
We are 100% supportive of the NFT community's focus on an Open Metaverse.
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6/ Eight years later, how did we do?
a) over 100,000 students attended at one crypto course
b) over 1,000 masters students in total
c) largest team (40+) faculty and staff focused on crypto
d) are the academic lead for EUBOF, the strategic blockchain advisory body to the EC
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5/ In 2013, we announced that we would accept BTC for tuition, teach an open MOOC taught by and and launch an MSc.
Each of those were the "first time" done in the world by any university.
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4/ But that is not why you are here.
In Fall 2013, UNIC was the first university in the world to unequivocally state that Bitcoin was a major breakthrough in distributed systems, would have huge social implications and was an important topic for teaching/research.
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3/ UNIC teaches primarily in English and has students from 110 countries. Our top countries in terms of student origin are:
1) Greece
2) Cyprus
3) USA
4) UK
5) Israel
6) Lebanon
7) Canada
8) Australia
9) Nigeria
10) Russia
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2/ UNIC is ranked by Times Higher Education in the top 3% of universities in world (#601 to 800 globally) and top 250 to 300 universities globally that are <50 years old.
UNIC is in the Top 100 universities in Europe in Business and Economics
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1/ So what specifically is the Open Metaverse Initiative? A quick 🧵
UNIC is the largest university in Cyprus, a comprehensive university with 7 schools, 20 academic departments and 100+ degree programs offered on-campus and online and 14,500 degree-seeking students
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What could this possibly be?
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People of the NFTs
We have carefully studied your ways and means of communication and we are ready to make contact with you.
Times Square, noon today, NASDAQ billboard.
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I see the crypto team is at it again...
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Important Announcement
The University of Nicosia is proud to announce that, 8 years after being the first university to accept Bitcoin for today, it is the first university to have acquired a CrypToadz?
True, but that is not the announcement
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1/5 A message to US and Western Policymakers on how to think about China's approach to crypto and blockchain. China opposes the Western system of values built on openness, transparency, privacy, free market competition and so forth.
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Something I have been pushing on for years is going to come to pass soon:
We are going to make available an unlocked OS build for the Oculus Go headset that can be side loaded to get full root access.
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Very excited that we will be back on-campus this semester!
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NFTs* are the single most important thing happening in the technology** industry right now.
*Non Fungible Tokens
** Not just technology - culture, social, art, everything. They will absorb the world
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[knock knock]
Does this thing still work?
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So, on October 11th, we are launching the world's FIRST EVER completely free online course "Introduction to DeFi".
Over six weeks (12 sessions), we will provide an introductory, yet thorough, review of how decentralization is redefining finance, including:
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2/ This course is most suited to students who already have some background in crypto. It assumes that you know how BTC and ETH work, at least at a user level.
If you are new to the space, take the Intro to Digital Currency MOOC first
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1/The @UNIC_ENG Intro to Digital Currency MOOC will run again for the 16th time with the legendary @aantonop, @giaglis and me, starting on Sept 27th.
Join 45,000 alums since 2014 for the best intro to BTC and the world of crypto
unic.ac.cy/blockchain/fre
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1/ Are your friends are farming food tokens on SushiSwap? Did you hear about Solana Summer? Does Tether keep you up at night?
Then you might be ready for 's DeFi MOOC, starting this Fall for the very first time
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3/ So sign up now, go enjoy your summer vacation and come back in September ready to dive into one of the most important technologies of the fourth industrial revolution
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2/ As always, the course is:
- 100% online
- 100% free
- You receive a BTC-backed certificate of completion
- If you apply and qualify, it counts as the first course for the Masters in Blockchain and Digital Currency, the flagship global Masters program in crypto
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