While hundreds of Brooklyn residents attended the Bitcoin Academy, some attendees enrolled in a grant for $1,000 in bitcoin.
details that the academy’s classes saw hundreds of people. “Marcy residents showed up,” Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter told the publication. “The over 350 people who attended The Bitcoin Academy classes let us know that this education is important to them—and that it matters,” she added.
“I remember when I was younger, growing up in the project, [Jay-Z] and his team would come and give us toys and things like that,” Regalado told Business Insider. “My friends and I would call it this kind of ‘hood philanthropy,’ — So for me, this is kind of like an evolution of that.” Regalado further detailed that the academy offered free daycare for her daughter, and as a single mother she was able to attend the courses.
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