The Last Trade E053: Educational Empowerment with Paul Nylen

Paul Nylen, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and faculty director of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Institute, joins The Last Trade to discuss the rapidly expanding role of Bitcoin in higher education. He shares how he launched UW-Whitewater's blockchain institute after recognizing a gap in business school curriculum, and discusses the Wisconsin Pension Fund's landmark Bitcoin allocation as a sign of deepening institutional adoption. The conversation covers the challenges of building a mining initiative on campus, the importance of mentoring the next generation of Bitcoin-literate professionals, and why the current post-ETF, post-halving environment represents one of the most bullish periods in Bitcoin's history.