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 nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8, 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 nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp and nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy 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!! 😄