There has been some chatter about taking the idea of BitCoin and applying the underlying technology of BlockChain to education. Audrey Watters gives a great introduction to the idea and where it could be going for education. The questions she raises are key considerations that, in a lot of ways, should steer Education away from the whole idea. The scenario she describes for proving your knowledge to potential employers sounds exhausting. While these ideas seem scary to most, big companies are investing huge amounts of $$$ into the idea and we need to know what is happening before this grows beyond what we can control.