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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Angelos Stefanidis (Dean of AI and Advanced Computing

at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China) for reviewing my book pro-

posal and providing guidance.

I thank CoinDesk (https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/26/best-

universities-for-blockchain-2022/) for providing permission to use its fan-

tastic work on university rankings providing blockchain education.