Reuben Youngblom

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Reuben Youngblom is managing editor of the Cryptoeconomic Systems Journal and Conference Series, an interdisciplinary effort between the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and MIT Press. He is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s CodeX Center for Legal Informatics, where he runs the Blockchain Education Initiative, serves as a coordinator for the RegTrax Blockchain Regulatory Tracking Initiative, and co-hosts the Our Data podcast. He also consults on CoinDesk's annual ranking of universities, evaluating the institutions’ impact in the blockchain space.

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Why Rankings – Including University Rankings – Are Crap
I developed CoinDesk’s Best Universities for Blockchain rankings in 2020, and have been tortured to some degree by them ever since.
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Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: Where In the World Is the Most Research Being Produced?
Asia dominates the global blockchain research landscape in 2022. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: CoinDesk’s Methodology
The massive effort to rank the efforts of universities to teach the fast-growing and potentially transformative emerging technology of blockchain comes down to making informed...
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How We Ranked the Top Universities for Blockchain
Our methodology for ranking 230 institutions worldwide, and how your school can get involved.
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Which Universities Are the Best for Blockchain?
Calling students, academics and industry stakeholders: We need your help to identify the best places to learn about crypto and blockchain technology.
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The Top Universities for Blockchain - Methodology
CoinDesk's 2020 university rankings rate institutions from scholarly impact to employment outcomes. Here is the full story of how we did it.
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The Top Universities for Blockchain 2020
CoinDesk's 2020 blockchain university rankings are the most nuanced, rigorous, and defensible rankings of their kind. See the winners here.
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Reuben Youngblom currently co-runs the RegTrax initiative through Stanford University
Looking Backward to Build the Future: How Academia Is Shifting Its Blockchain Focus
Stanford's Reuben Youngblom interviews academics working to educate the next generation of crypto designers and developers.
Reuben Youngblom currently co-runs the RegTrax initiative through Stanford University