NYC Pricate School Accepting Bitcoin

in bitcoin •  7 years ago 

A school modeled after the pedagogy of maria Montessori have went outside the box and started to accept student tuition payed by bitcoin payments. The Montessori school co founder and chairman Marco Ciocca told the Town and the country they have made the decision after multiple of their Silicon Alley base parents asked him whether they could pay the $30,950 tuition with bitcoin after looking into to it the school which has campuses in Flatiron and Soho decided to partner with Coinbase to become the first pre kindergarten school to accept bitcoin. A few of the parents were concerned about the decision due to the popular misconception that bitcoin is only used for illegal activities but the Ciocca treated the conversation as an opportunity to educate them about bitcoin and they pointed out that many Fortune 500 companies already accept bitcoin.

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this is good to hear

there will be a lot more people accepting bitcoin soon

really cool to hear there's more and more places that are accepting it.

yea a lot more people are getting into the cryptocurrency market