Texas A&M, one of America's largest universities, pumps out a decent amount of sports stars.

...but we might be about to see a 'Revenge Of The Nerds' type situation, where Bitcoin programmers start to outshine the jocks.

​Ray Korok will be teaching the university's first ever Bitcoin programming class, where students will learn to “build a Bitcoin library from scratch.”

Don't know what a Bitcoin library is? Neither did we.

Basically, it's a collection of prewritten code that programmers can use to optimize their coding tasks.

(The same way that Photoshop is a collection of prewritten code that lets users optimize their photo editing tasks).

Getting the course approved by the curriculum committee body didn't come easy - according to Ray K "It took months to get this class approved, but we made it!"

Hard won or not - a university the size of Texas A&M, offering a Bitcoin focused course?

This does big things for legitimizing blockchain technology.

And could do even bigger things for the future adoption/development of Bitcoin itself.