In promoting my previous book SQL Practice Problems I found it was useful to connect with professors teaching databases and data science. They were often interested in using my book in their classes.
So in promoting my new book Bitcoin, Hands On!, I've been looking up what classes universities offer, around Bitcoin, to see if they'd want to use my book.
I was surprised (sort of, I know most universities suck now) that...they don't, really. I didn't find ANY university that had a course on Bitcoin. It was ALL BLOCKCHAIN, with occasionally some side references to cryptocurrencies and very occasionally to Bitcoin.
It pisses me off, because I listened to that whole mainstream academia/corporate idea for a long time, without realizing how important Bitcoin was.
That idea - that Bitcoin was just a little side project off "Blockchain", and that "Blockchain" would revolutionize the world cost me a lot, in terms of how late I was to understanding Bitcoin.
And universities are still promoting blockchain over bitcoin!
Saifedean Ammous, in his book The Bitcoin Standard, has a great section on Blockchain Technology and how useless it is outside of bitcoin, in the chapter Bitcoin Questions. Here's an illustration from that chapter.
Also apparently @JimmySong has written about this topic.