Oddbean

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, 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 and @niftynei 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!! 😄