@kdnolan speaking at #ICOT2024 - 
International Conference On Thinking

Audio is a bit scuffed at times but OK.

Pretty cool to hear about the start of the Bitcoin community in Melbourne, the dedication Kieran has towards making sure the world doesn't fall into fucking pieces. 

From the first physical Bitcoin school, to 21 BTC being donated to the school + kids, to Andreas Antonopolous being involved and donating 2 Pi's, to the break-in of his school, all the tech being stolen, then the Dept of Education shitting on the efforts of everyone involved and banning the use of shipping containers as open-source classrooms. 

VR, Podcasting, Video Game Development, Bitcoin, Nostr, 3D Printing... the school did it all. Of course after the tech being stolen by local junkies and the local police doing *not a single thing* to try and retrieve stolen property, the whole thing collapsed in on itself like a dying star. 

Throughout the Covid bullshit and the toughest lockdowns ever thown at the population of Victoria, in Australia (watch Battleground Melbourne on YT courtesy of Topher Field), our state was going pretty hard on communist ideals and Kieran thought... 

"What Would Satoshi Do?"

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Not long after  @kdnolan wrote the whitepaper for a DAES, or a Decentralized Autonomous Education System.  @TheSchoolofBitcoin has been going ever since! 

Thank fuck but since then Kieran has built a new hackerspace at a Primary School. With basically AI and University level subjects being dismissed and other 'essential' sites being blocked at the port level across the entire department of education... he got his own starlink brought in and bam. Now they're running nodes, learning nodes, learning lightning and going full orange and purple pilled.

Anyways, rambled on long enough, you'll learn of this if you watch his talk. I think he's gone through this type of talk like 500 times now so it would be cooler if other educators on Nostr could perhaps chime in or relate to his experiences in someway?

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