What would you include in the lecture?
Don't assume anything about their majors or academic backgrounds. Assume it is a class open to all entry level freshmen.
60 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 4 Aug 2023
You have all you need on
https://bitcoin.page
and
https://lightning.how
Bonus one of my basic guides
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/5-stages-became-bitcoiner
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @bryan 4 Aug 2023
we gave a talk to the blockchain club at Georgia Tech where many of the attendees are more knowledgeable on Ethereum and few know much (if anything) about Bitcoin. Here’s our presentation slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uklDFESloIsDEyOG28nCX_b9rmWwh-FRHNK-DFS18DM/edit
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 4 Aug 2023
Good luck! Some prompts:
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Look at the debt obligations of nation states
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KYC/AML can only trend in one direction
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Tax collection agencies will be monetized every bit short of militarization out of necessity
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The fastest growing form of energy is green energy, not oil or fossil fuels. This makes the petrodollar a dead man walking. Bitcoin uses electricity. What does this mean for the BTC/USD pair?
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Remote work growth means more laws are coming to coerce tax collection for the above reasons. Passports will look more like driver's licenses, where reciprocity with states can see an unpaid ticket in California cancel your driving privileges in Illinois. Borders are for keeping you in.
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Ai data gold is seeing every mainstream platform build their own walls
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Uploading simple content (like a video) will condition content with the rise of Ai model pre-scans fed licensing, engagement, and policy algos. Art and expression will get smothered. FOSS (free open source software) is the way out
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CBDC's are spyware controlling the logic gates of transacting with purchase voids, geofencing, restrictions, expiry
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First principles: bearer assurances, censorship resistance, permissionless
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What is decentralization, how does the court (network) enforce rules, and what does it mean for property rights?
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How does FOSS and cooperation grow with only censored digital CBDC money extant?
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Fixed monetary policy targeting a variable price of bitcoin as the mirror opposite of variable monetary policy targeting a fixed price of the fiat system
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What's hardness?
If you can explain bitcoin without ever mentioning the price or NgU, you have an A+ lecture. Avoid it until it's absolutely necessary, to explain say incentive structure, or why volatility is bitcoin's best evangelist.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 4 Aug 2023
I'd probably only take 40 minutes and leave the rest of the time for Q&A. There are many ways to tell the story, I got into bitcoin because of my interest and opinions on economics, which colors the story I might tell, but so would my day.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Aug 2023
I'd probably just share videos from other people. I'm just a substitute bitcoin teacher.
Probably these: https://hellobitco.in/#videos and some from the goat aantonop.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brianh 4 Aug 2023
i would also probably include a few things about how the current financial system is built to have few winners and many losers, and how people are effectively discriminated against when it comes to institutions.
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