Tag: bitcoin education

Bitcoin Country seeks to generate world-class Bitcoin and Lightning engineers through a new program utilizing the university system.El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office has announced a new six month educational program entitled “CUBO+” that aims to produce elite-level Bitcoin and Lighting developers through the Salvadoran university system....

Mi Primer Bitcoin’s new diploma program is set to expand opportunities for learning about Bitcoin in high schools that adopt it.Mi Primer Bitcoin, a Bitcoin education program based in El Salvador, has announced a new and improved diploma program in English. According to Dalia Platt, head of curriculum for Mi Primer Bitcoin, the “aim is to change the way people learn about...

Various projects supporting censorship resistance and Bitcoin education have received funding from the HRF.The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has granted 2 billion satoshis, approximately $475,000, from the Bitcoin Development Fund to 10 global projects. The funding will support areas such as censorship- resistant communication, Bitcoin education in authoritarian regimes, core development and building local...

The educational center hopes to create and maintain a Bitcoin circular economy and is focused on financial literacy and empowerment.The Built With Bitcoin Foundation (BWB) has opened a new Bitcoin Technology Center in Ejisu, Ghana, a city in Greater Kumasi, as a legacy for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Conference. The center will be run by Ghanaians, for Ghanaians, according to a press...

This might be Peter Schiff’s weirdest take, and the man’s got a few. While commenting on Kim Kardashian's recent deal with the SEC, the gold bug fired at “the real pumpers”… Michael Saylor? and… CNBC? Did Peter Schiff and his team even do basic research about Kim Kardashian's case? Or is he playing dumb, attacking his perceived enemies, and muddying the waters? For...

Being a Bitcoiner is one part of the journey, but bitcoin adoption happens when we can teach others about the importance of hard, sound money.This is an opinion editorial by Phil Snyder, professor, video director and editor.While first developing my Bitcoin course at the University of Houston, I felt a little like Dr. Albert Schweitzer landing ashore at Equatorial Africa in...

According to this banking insider, the governments have it all wrong. Bitcoin is one of the least private assets out there, and they should change policies for the pendulum to swing the other way. In the banking insider’s opinion, instead of protecting them, the governments have been harming their citizens with the current draconian measures. That sounds convenient for bitcoiners, sure, but this...

Learning about bitcoin can be daunting. There are many great educators that teach through different lenses to make Bitcoin approachable for everyone.This is an opinion editorial by Peter Conley, a product advocate at Vercel.How does someone start learning about Bitcoin? This is the 21-million-coin question. Learning about Bitcoin can be disorienting. There’s so much content out there,...

It’s time for The Bitcoin Standard to speculate. How can bitcoin's status as a store of value and even as an international reserve currency evolve in the future? As the asset and the network prove their value as a new alternative to traditional finance, the world will look at bitcoin in a new light. How will legacy players react as they understand the...

Binance is also working with Philippine regulators to establish a framework to encourage Bitcoin and crypto adoption in the country.Philippine universities will offer free courses on Bitcoin and other digital assets in partnership with Binance.The exchange participated in a Senate hearing in the country with industry regulators and leaders to help develop guidelines for digital assets....

Back to The Bitcoin Standard, today we’ll explain this sentence: “Bitcoin is the cheapest way to buy the future, because Bitcoin is the only medium guaranteed to not be debased, no matter how much its value rises.” This is not a trivial matter, in fact, it’s one of the defining characteristics of the network. The world tends towards a bitcoin standard because bitcoin...

The planet needs Vinteum because “we need developers from all over the world to build this global internet-native money.” What is Vinteum? In the post announcing the organization’s existence, they describe themselves as “a non- profit Bitcoin research and development center dedicated to supporting Bitcoin developers in Brazil and the wider Latin America region. We will train and fund open source developers to work...

True to their history as an uncolonized people, Ethiopians are more determined than ever to build sovereign value through principled education and civic action.This is an opinion editorial by Kal Kassa, the head of business development at hoseki and an Ethiopian Bitcoiner.Various multinational institutions are failing to complete their intended missions and objectives. Institutions like...

It’s obvious that bitcoin can’t free Palestine, let’s begin there. The bitcoin network just offers better money, not a miracle cure. It offers a decentralized currency that can’t be debased by any government, no more, no less. The author of “Bitcoin Cannot Free Palestine...

Bitcoin is the FED’s new favorite subject. Fresh from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis measuring inflation in BTC terms, comes the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland with a study titled “...

It’s time to visit Oslo one more time. Bitcoinist keeps mining The Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum for the content all those other bitcoin sites are not interested in. We are talking about real life here, and we already went to the well a few times - one...

The Oslo Freedom Forum wasn’t a bitcoin conference, but the Human Rights Foundation made sure that its message was always present. We’ve already featured - one,...

The Oslo Freedom Forum delivered some of the most thought-provoking ideas about what makes bitcoin special and valuable beyond mere price. And luckily, the organizers cut these one-minute videos for us to consume said ideas. And even luckier still, Bitcoinist decided to echo them and paint a different picture of the asset our publication is named after. We’ve already featured people...

The Oslo Freedom Forum offers another perspective. Seen from the standpoint of activists like these or these, t...

Two public schools in El Salvador are offering a vocational course that teaches Bitcoin as a skills-based diploma and counts towards graduation.NGO My First Bitcoin, in partnership with IBEX Mercado, just announced 38 high school students graduated with Bitcoin diplomas in El Salvador.Bitcoin education is taught through a vocational program in public schools where it serves as a practical...