One Aussie primary school teaches cryptocurrency- and the world is paying attention

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published September 15, 2017

It's not only parents and special guests that have been perusing the Wooranna Park Primary School grounds of late.

Journalists, US software developers and ‘cryptocurrency’ specialists from Malaysia have also been taking a vested interest in what’s been going ...

This story appeared in the October 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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