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A British Columbia university has started accepting the digital currency Bitcoin at all of its bookstores, allowing customers to open their mobile wallets in what's believed to be a first for post-secondary institutions in Canada.Simon Fraser University has also installed automated Bitcoin vending machines on its campuses in Burnaby, Vancouver and Surrey.
"It is still a very new, techie kind of subject and it takes -- I think, for the average person -- a lot of time to be able to understand it and be comfortable using it," said Michael Yeung, who founded the SFU Bitcoin Club that spearheaded the venture.
Just met Michael Yeung and bought a textbook with some bitcoin. Kinda cool to see this now that the price of bitcoin seems to be stabilizing a bit.