Bitcoin in Middle School Update: Our first semester of the 'Intro to Bitcoin' elective for 6th-8th graders had a rocky start. Initially, no students enrolled, but just before the deadline, two based kids signed up - game on!
By the end of semester one we learned kids:
• Love CypherPunks and permissionles FOSS everything
• Can create and restore a Green Wallet on iOS
• Can install and configure Bitcoin Core, Umbrel and Start9 types of nodes
• Can open lightning channels between our class nodes, thanks BTCsessions (npub1rxy…hnp8), and hate high fees
• Can absolutely understand "not your keys, not your coins"
• Are getting the "stay humble and stack sats" - middle school humble - baby steps.
Exponential Growth?? - Now in semester two, our class size is blowing up a MASSIVE 100% to 4 students (ok with one returning)! At this growth rate, I'm pretty sure eleventy billion kids will be in that class soon - to the moon yo!
Shout out to Jameson Lopp (npub17u5…t4tp) and niftynei (npub1e0z…0txy) for donating Testnet bitcoin for the kids to play with - I was going broke trying to demonstrate transactions on main net in a 40 min class - get off my lawn you stinking mempool clogging JPEGS!! 😄
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2024-01-16 21:58:02
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