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You enroll like fifty people into it per year, hire a handful of hackers / teachers to help them, and give them an education with some kind of public service component.
They first did that in El Salvador with My First Bitcoin. IBEX/Swan did a short documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-tZGwmOOGI. I recall the program has spread to other places like Bitcoin Ekasi in South Africa.
Probably wouldn't be hard to get some super seasoned btc devs / general software types to come in and mentor the students, teach classes, take them as apprentices, etc. You turn it into the Chaincode of the South, give people a free and picturesque place to stay, etc. Play matchmaker w/ btc-centric companies in the North, etc.
Cubo+ goes a bit further and is training them into bitcoin/lightning devs. Niftynei, Jimmy Song, other bitcoiners helped with the goal setting. They've had a few cohorts finish by now I imagine.
It's playing out exactly how you imagine it. At least in a few of these places.
Super cool! Let me noodle on a less intuitive idea and see if I can stump you :)
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