
"The jury is still out on whether blockchain is going to change the world, but this week it did change quite a few classrooms across the country and make some teachers very happy.With a digital gift worth $29 million, Ripple, a company that uses cryptocurrency to facilitate international payments, fulfilled all 35,647 classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org, a site used by public school teachers seeking funds for classroom resources and supplies. The money will go to 28,210 teachers who together teach more than a million students across the U.S."Read the full story on The 74.