AskSN: I need your help to orange pill +80 kids! \ stacker news ~alter

Happy Sunday to you all!

I need your help again!

In February I am allowed to have one day to orange pill ~86 kins at my school. They are all in year 10. So the age range is between 16-17 years.

I have 3 times ~70min breaks for 3 classes. So we will rotate the classes so that each class gets the same breaket but in a different order. For example group A will start with breaket 1, group B with breaket 2 and group C with breaket 3 and after 70min they will rotate.

In the end every group should get every breaket. Why is it important to know this? Obviously we cannot build on the knowledge we gained in the previous breaket.

So the idea is to get help. I have a good friend who is a super geek in the technical side of BTC and I might get a well known German podcaster (because he is based in Leipzig and has shown interest). Each of us will have a break.

The idea for the tree topics are as follows:

Bracket 1: Tech

How to install Wallet of Satoshi (since there can't be KYC)
(Link your wallet with nostr client Primal if bracket 3 was beforehands)
Everyone gets 2 EUR worth of satoshi.
show them how to send and receive sats
show them hardware wallets
Show them old miners
Explain Mempol

Bracket 2: Philosophy

What is BTC?
Why do we need BTC?
What is good about BTC?
Explain inflation and fiat money
Explain the philosophy behind phrases such as
- proof of work
- don't trust, verify
- stay humble stack sats

Bracket 3: Freedom Tech

What is Nostr?
How to install Primal
introduction to nostr and primal
(connect your wallet if you had bracket 1 before)
Why it's important to own your feed and your content
How BTC connects to social media and may be the best touchpoint for kids.
what are zaps?

Any thoughts or ideas on this would be most welcome! If you want to throw out an entire bracket and replace it with something you think is more important, go for it!

Again, there is only 70 minutes to throw them into cold water. You have to play around and learn on your own.

But they should get some basics and not fall for scams.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 2 Dec

Instead of the WoS, I will actually suggest the ZBD wallet because of its in-built ecosystem. You can answer a daily quiz, play some games or do some surveys to get more sats. Who knows, maybe this will get them to go down the rabbit hole

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shugard OP 2 Dec

Thanks

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 1 Dec

This book for kids is a very way to introduce some of the points you are planning to talk about it.

I'll ask the students to read it and discuss it in the classroom.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @random_ 1 Dec

Drop Bracket 3.

Teach philosophy before tech.

Move the bullet point "what is BTC" into the tech bracket.

Explain "why do we need Bitcoin" without mentioning Bitcoin.

Use a regtest network, e.g. Polar. Only give real bitcoin to students who "pass".

Use pheonix wallet dev version for testnet.

Focus on onchain first. Lightning requires understanding onchain.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @random_ 1 Dec

If you must give them something for nothing, give them stickers. https://ideasarelikeflames.com/shop/

(The designs are free, make them yourself.)

Also some good quotes on the philosophy of Bitcoin there. e.g. Fix the money, fox the world.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Shugard OP 1 Dec

Fix the money, fox the world.

YES!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 1 Dec

lmao

There are technical names for the problems that Bitcoin solves. Off the top of my head, the double spend problem and the byzantine general problem. Surely there are others.

Might be worth mentioning the problems, and past solutions like chaumian ecash and hashcash. Could have a handout of the timeline of research that lead up to/was cited in the whitepaper. (What about the whitepaper??)