Blockchain diplomas land in Virginia at ECPI - Jacob Demmit, Roanoke Times

Virginia colleges are beginning to embrace the idea of blockchain diplomas, as Virginia Beach-based ECPI University has joined a group of early adopters that distribute student degrees through the same kind of decentralized computer networks that power Bitcoin. Virginia Tech, meanwhile, is in the early stages of considering its own launch, according to Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski. The concept behind the technology is virtually unchanged, except ECPI is using the blockchain to issue digital degrees instead of digital currencies. https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/blockchain-diplomas-land-in-virginia-at-ecpi/article_211a7a4d-3bd8-5157-8445-5ee1052ff2d4.html