I’m literally tired of some bitcoin platforms not getting the love they deserve. So, I decided to do something about this. Maybe if it gets enough attention I might start a series.
One of the most underrated bitcoin platform to me is Emeralize.
The best way to describe Emeralize is as an orange-pilled version of Udemy.
Emeralize gives you the platform to create courses and resources that people can learn from.
You might be telling yourself “I’m not smart enough to create a course” or “I have nothing interesting to share or teach other people”.
And I get it — creating a course or a resource sounds intimidating. But I want to challenge you to see this platform differently.
Everyone has something to share. You’d probably be able to come up with one thing that you do a little better than other people. Or maybe there’s something someone has asked you to explain to them that they couldn’t figure out on their own.
The reason why I find Emeralize so underrated is because it makes it really easy for you to upload your own course or resource and earn sats from it.
My point here isn’t its potential for you stack more sats. It’s the creation of another opportunity for you to give something back to the world.
In the past 2.5 years since I’ve been a bitcoiner, I’ve spoken to a lot of other bitcoiners and learned that there’s so much to learn from people within the ecosystem. I’m not just talking about only bitcoin-related information — I’m talking about non-bitcoin information like music, art, investing, business, productivity, and more.
Emeralize has the potential to be a goldmine where we can learn from each other within the ecosystem about a variety of topics. You’re able to build your knowledge-base from content on the platform or develop a skill through creating content for the platform. Emeralize creates a symbiotic relationship whether you’re a creator or a consumer.
Manage Your Expectations
If you’ve gotten this far and I’ve piqued your interest enough to check out the platform, here are some things to note to manage your expectations:
- You might not see many courses right now (as at the time this was written) but it shouldn’t discourage you from creating courses of your own or browsing through courses or resources you can consume.
Course creation is a valuable skill and what better way to learn than by doing.
- Don’t expect to get so many views or sales of your courses overnight because you posted on the platform. Views or sales don’t miraculously happen.
Even if Emeralize were a platform that attracts millions of views and search daily (which it could be in the future), the success of your course or resource depends on you 100%.
With the right kind of promotion and marketing, you can channel traffic to your course or resource on Emeralize. And that heavy lifting depends on you.
If you create a course and publish on Emeralize, talk about it on Twitter (or X). If you have a newsletter, promote it there. There are so many ways to go about it.
The Bigger Picture with Emeralize
All I shared is my based on my opinion. But allow me to take you a little deeper into the picture in my mind.
As bitcoiners we want to orange-pill people and get them to spend, earn and hodl bitcoin.
Our common mission is hyperbitcoinization. We might follow different paths to make this happen but we’re all heading towards the same destination.
Within the last 2 years I’ve noticed an interesting trend in bitcoin education. I don’t want to go deep into it on this piece but I could write about it in the future. (Let me know in the comments if you’d like me to.)
One of the things I’ve observed is the new trend of introducing bitcoin without actually talking about it directly.
I believe Emeralize could be one of those tools to make this possible.
Say for example you created a course on “How to Use LinkedIn to Land A Job” and shared a post on LinkedIn about your new course.
People click on the Emeralize link and they see that the course is 5000 sats. They also see an introductory post instructing people how they could get non-KYC bitcoin, download and set up a bitcoin wallet, and make payment.
Of course, some will drop off. But there will be some who will be curious enough to try. And they eventually buy the course and learn from you.
Without mentioning much about bitcoin and how incredible it is, they learned how to buy bitcoin, create a bitcoin wallet and pay.
Maybe these same people would start to wonder what else they could buy with the bitcoin they have remaining in their wallets and they buy another course on Emeralize.
Gradually they build up confidence to do more and start asking what exactly is bitcoin. Google then leads them to the endless rabbit hole of information that they can binge on.
You might see this example as something that could only happen in a perfect world. But I bet you there are bitcoiners who were on a similar journey that made them maxis today.
Bitcoin education is great and you can see its importance even in the hypothetical scenario I shared. But we also need bitcoiners to create non-bitcoin content and publish them on bitcoin platforms to help people learn about bitcoin through experiencing it themselves. Experience is an incredible teacher.
Give It A Try
In this piece, I tried my best to highlight a side of Emeralize that would appeal to the creator, the consumer, and the one looking for more ways to stack sats.
But if you take anything out of this let be at least one of these three:
- Start looking at bitcoin platforms with a bigger picture in mind. I when you’re developing a platform don’t forget the hyperbitcoinization goal.
If the platform is difficult to get non-bitcoiners then it defeats the purpose.
- Not every bitcoiner should be a bitcoin educator But you can support bitcoin educators through non-bitcoin content too.
There’s something you have that a non-bitcoin would find valuable and through the right tools your content can be a vehicle to orange-pill someone.
- It’s never too late pick up a skill. Course creation is a good skill to learn. When you go through some of the courses on Emeralize, you notice that creating a course may not be as intimidating as you think it is.
What do you think about Emeralize? Would you give it a try? Let me know below.