Tuesday, June 26, 2018

"In fall 2014, University of Iowa alumnus Chris Stewart left a stable job with State Farm Insurance to start a company based on bitcoin, the controversial cryptocurrency that, at the time, many economists and investors predicted would soon disappear. [...] He took classes in the Department of Computer Science that at the time didn’t seem valuable—Abstract Algebra and Program Language Concepts—but became important as he hunkered down to write the software for his company."