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With now nearly 200 subscribers for my course within just a few days, it's become apparent to me that if this momentum continues, then there a chance tens of thousands of future bitcoiners will begin their integration into the bitcoin world as my students. Thus, I figure there is a duty for me to solicit feedback from the community about a common language when describing concepts like wallets, addresses, and yes "the Bitcoin".
While technical language should never be changed for the sake of brevity, I have seen a debate about addresses for example. Also the terminology used in describing a transaction is somewhat cumbersome for a non-computer scientist. What do you guys suggest that I include and exclude in my course. What language and notation would you like to see become the standard for our future bitcoiners?
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I do not own Udemy and am just an approved instructor. Bandwidth, dashboards, good software and 24/7 uptime cost money. Udemy needs to recover it somehow. Over time and with the help of community donations, I hope we can create our own dedicated platform that is both free and registration optional
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Have you guys seen my current explanation in the course? Is it in the zone or if not where does it need to go?
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Please just disband the Bitcoin foundation and stop trying to form organizations that claim to represent people when they actually don't, I'm getting sick of this, it's exactly how groups like the Federal Reserve got started and will also be why I diversify into alternative currencies, I will never acknowledge the 'Bitcoin foundation' as any sort of regulatory or representative body of Bitcoin or it's users and do everything to fight against them. Well you guys can complain about it or you can help me design and implement my course. The better it becomes; the more people take it and recommend it. If it becomes the entry point into the bitcoin world for the general public, then those who control the course; control the opinions and level of participation for all who learned from it. I want the veterans in this community to step up or you will have to just accept the bitcoin foundation as your defacto leader. The media will give them this title soon enough. |
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Maybe you could offer a fast explanation that's enough to understand what you have to know to use it and have an additional advanced stuff section for those who want to know how it works exactly. That's the current configuration of the course with a series of four optional advanced lectures corresponding to each major wallet client (Qt, Armory, Electrum, Multibit). I've contacted the leads of Armory and Qt to assist in vetting all the technical information conveyed is correct. If we choose to preserve this approach, then what are the absolutely essential security facts that have to be shared to users? |
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Some time needs to be devoted to helping people understand what "wallet" refers to in the context of bitcoin. Essentially, that "wallet" refers to a system that manages private keys, and that one must have control of the private key associated with a bitcoin address in order to dispense whatever value that address has associated with it. Understanding that, I think, influences security decisions, and, I hope, rules out online wallets as safe wallets. That, of course, emphasizes an important value of bitcoin -- namely, that it allows people to secure their own wealth.
I'm of the opinion right now that mainstream adoption of bitcoin is to some degree dependent on elevating the security education of the entire population of prospective users, because I think there's unlikely to be a safe and easy way to secure bitcoins for the foreseeable future.
- Should the course be wallet neutral or adopt a particular client and invest resources in educating students how to use it?
- How deep should we go in discussing transactions?
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Working with several members of this community, we are going to redo my core lectures in the course over the next few weeks to better reflect a unified set of information that serves as the best summary of what Bitcoin is and why it is important- including legitimate criticisms. If you had six lectures to discuss all the high and low points of Bitcoin, then what would you emphasize? What should be mentioned? What should be left out of the discussion?
Please take the time to deeply think about these questions. I really do value your opinions. Also please do not debate the opinions of others in this thread. I want to collect everyone's ideas, not provoke a philosophical fight like the Matonis thread.
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Satoshi is Wenbo Mao. Now stop asking
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My deadline is the end of April. If no units have shipped and been confirmed by independent sources, then I will send my question list to BFL.
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I'd like some feedback and perhaps support from you guys on my education project. I'd like to create a one stop shop to learn about Bitcoin starting with my course and then eventually moving to a dedicated website thats like a combination of Udemy, stackexchange, code academy and youtube. The goal would be to centralize the knowledge necessary for people to integrate into the Bitcoin community in whatever role they seek.
Any advice or takers?
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Canton, do you do all the graphics art yourself?
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After some debate and discussion with the community, I have decided to release my course effectively immediately under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/In normal english, use and consumption of my work is forever free and you are also free to both share and modify my work for both commercial and non-commercial use under two conditions: - Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
I feel this a fair compromise and it also means that I am solely working for donations now. I will make every attempt to continue to add as much community reviewed content as quickly as possible to help us better communicate Bitcoin to the world. If anyone wants to help me with advice, suggestions, making lectures or interviews, then please PM me or email me at Charles.Hoskinson@gmail.com |
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That indeed sounds weird. The old UI (wxbitcoin) used to generate new, unlabaled addresses in some circumstances. With Bitcoin-Qt this should not be happening.
The wallet starts with one receiving address, and all receiving addresses after that should be manually created. If receiving addresses still appear out of the blue with 0.8.x this is a (minor) bug. To be able to fix it I need a way to reproduce it. Let me see if I could drag out some screenshots and also his configuration. I figured you'd like to know about this one. |
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The addresses appeared in the GUI list of receiving address, with no description against them. I've run several versions of the client over time starting from something like 0.3, and as far as I'm aware new addresses have continued to appear in the list occasionally up to at least version 0.7 There's about 10 there now that I didn't create, and I've re-labelled several more for use too. Thanks for your answer! This is the weird part |
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guys everyone needs to calm down a bit
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I don't have the copyright to use in a commercial product. Unless you say so
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Those are beautiful. Could you send me a picture of one for my class? I'd like my students to see something that's not on ebay.
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